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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the UK providing and maintaining funding allocated by the EU's LEADER programme at the same level after the UK leaves the EU.

Rural development is a devolved matter.

The agreement in principle between the UK and the EU states that we will continue to participate in EU programmes until they close in 2020. The UK will therefore receive its full allocation of 2014-2020 LEADER funding.

All decisions on future spending will be made at the Spending Review.