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 amount of food that will have to be stockpiled by (a) retailers and (b) the Government to ensure an adequate food supply in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

The Government is committed to securing the best deal for the food, fishery and farming sectors, whilst ensuring that consumers continue to have a wide range of choice of food products at affordable prices.

The UK has a high degree of food security, built on access to a range of sources including strong domestic production and imports from third countries. This will continue to be the case as we leave the EU.

While we are making sensible preparations for all eventualities as we leave the EU, there are no plans to stockpile food.

The Government has well established ways of working with the food industry on food supply chain issues and we will be using these to support preparations for leaving the EU.