Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect on the flow of (a) goods and (b) labour in the UK dairy industry of the UK leaving the EU.
On leaving the EU, the UK will have an independent trade policy and a new agriculture policy to replace the Common Agricultural Policy. As a result, the impact of the UK leaving the EU on British agriculture (and within that the UK dairy industry) will depend not just on the shape of a UK-EU trade agreement but also on the Government’s future trade and agriculture policies.
To that end, the Government is undertaking a wide range of analysis looking at the implications of leaving the EU. This ongoing analysis is helping to develop a detailed understanding of how withdrawing from the EU will impact on the UK in order to best inform Government policy going forward.