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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of the UK's withdrawal from the EU on the broiler poultry industry.

The UK has a highly resilient food supply chain which has coped well in responding to the various challenges the industry, including the broiler poultry sector, has faced in the past few years. The UK poultry sector operate in an open market with the value of poultry products established by those in the supply chain.

Defra continues to keep the poultry market situation under close review, including through the UK Agriculture Market Monitoring Group, which monitors UK agricultural markets including price, supply, inputs, trade and recent developments. Defra ministers and officials also meet regularly with poultry industry stakeholders to discuss the challenges the poultry sector is facing.