Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what steps he plans to take during the UK's negotiations to leave the EU to ensure that (a) the financial and competitive position of UK agriculture is maintained and (b) UK agriculture can provide national food security after the UK leaves the EU.

We are focused on growing our world-leading food and farming industry, and we want the best possible arrangement for UK agriculture and for consumers. The department is therefore working across government to analyse the impacts of our withdrawal from the EU, including on agriculture and food security. This will inform the UK’s negotiating position; but we are not going to not speculate on what that looks like at this stage.