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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is the Government's policy to seek to remain part of the TRACES online management tool after the UK leaves the EU.

The Government is negotiating our exit from the European Union. Defra is working with the Department for Exiting the European Union to look at future arrangements including for the UK’s system for the management of agri-food imports and exports.