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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to establish a sugar policy to provide equity in the sugar market for producers after the UK leaves the EU.

British sugar beet producers are among the most competitive in the world and already compete effectively at world prices.

The government also recognises the importance of the sugar cane refining industry in providing competition in the market in the UK and the importance of sugar cane production for some developing countries, especially those within the Commonwealth.

On leaving the EU the UK government will be free to decide its own trade policies.