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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on the fisheries sector of the UK leaving the EU without agreeing a trade deal with the EU.

We are in the process of carrying out a programme of rigorous and extensive analytical work on a range of scenarios for the fisheries sector. The Cabinet has agreed that all Departments need to prepare not just for a negotiated settlement, but also for the no deal scenario. We export fish worth £1 billion to the EU and we import fish worth £900 million from the EU.