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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the budget to maintain agricultural sector funding at the equivalent Pillar 1 levels under the CAP from when the UK leaves the EU until 2020 will be managed and delivered from her Department's resource budget; and if she will make a statement.

The Government has guaranteed that the agricultural sector will receive the same level of funding that it would have received under Pillar 1 of the Common Agricultural Policy until the end of the Multi-Annual Financial Framework in 2020. No decisions have yet been taken about how that budget will be managed in the period between the UK leaving the EU and 2020.