Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to maintain the responsibilities and functions of the European Food Safety Authority when the UK leaves the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.

We firmly believe it is in the interests of both the European Union and the United Kingdom to strike a deal. That remains the goal on both sides and we are confident that this will be achieved. As is the job of a responsible Government, we have already carried out very significant no deal preparations and will be setting out further details on food safety shortly so that business and citizens have time to prepare. The UK’s priority is to maintain our high standards of food and feed safety.