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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing subsidies to UK flower producers after the UK leaves the EU.

The Government has not explicitly made an assessment of the potential merits of providing subsidies to UK flower producers after the UK leaves the EU.

We have made clear that we propose to phase out the concept of farm subsidies and replace them with a new system that rewards and encourages the delivery of public goods, principally environmental goods. The Government is currently consulting on a new domestic agriculture policy, including a new environmental land management system, to be introduced in the next Parliament.