Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report by the Food Research Collaboration, Weakening UK food law enforcement: a risky tactic in Brexit, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for food security when the UK leaves the EU of the report’s conclusions on the Food Standards Agency’s programme of change, Regulating Our Future.

At no point will the United Kingdom Government propose changes through the Regulating Our Future programme that would adversely impact on food security or cause difficulty to food businesses wishing to export food post European Union exit. Departments are currently working together to understand the impacts that withdrawal from the EU will have across a number of cross-cutting areas. It will be the UK Government’s priority to maintain the UK’s high standards of food and feed safety, and to ensure we take a risk-based, proportionate approach when providing risk assessments.