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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to develop export markets for British food products outside the EU.

The UK Food and Drink International Action Plan 2016-2020 was launched earlier this month. This sets out a Government and industry strategy to grow UK food and drink exports to 2020 and beyond. The Action Plan identifies nine campaigns in 18 target markets. Extending market access across the world is a key pillar of the plan and good progress is being made in negotiations with USA, China and Japan on several commodities.