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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to decide whether protected geographical indicators will continue after the UK leaves the EU.

The Government is planning to use the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to transfer into domestic law the EU schemes that currently protect our geographical indications (GIs). This will ensure that UK GIs remain protected in the UK after we leave the EU. Defra officials are working closely with officials from other government departments, the devolved administrations, and the Crown Dependencies on this.