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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the guidance, Upholding environmental standards if there’s no Brexit deal, published on 13 September 2018, when he plans to publish the interim measures that may be necessary in a no deal scenario.

The EU (Withdrawal) Act will ensure existing EU environmental law continues to have effect in UK law after the UK leaves the EU.

The Government has committed to create a new body to hold the Government to account on its compliance with environmental law. In a no deal scenario we will work to ensure that this body is in place as soon as possible with the necessary powers to review and, if necessary, take enforcement action in respect of ongoing breaches of environmental law from when the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ended.

Any interim measures that may be necessary under a no deal scenario before the new body is established will be brought forward in due course.