Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to take steps to increase her Department's resources to deal with legislation effected by Retained EU Law.

Defra is in the process of analysing our Retained EU Law stock and determining what should be retained as part of domestic law.The Secretary of State has set out our approach to Parliament. We will remove legislation superfluous to the UK, review the effectiveness of EU regulation in achieving environmental outcomes and we will retain, by default, environmental legislation for the UK to achieve existing environmental outcomes.

The Department is conducting an exercise to establish how we can achieve our plans via secondary legislation and therefore what resources will be required.