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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support farmers and agri-producers after the UK leaves the EU.

Leaving the European Union means leaving the Common Agricultural Policy. We now have an opportunity to take back control of our policies on agriculture and the environment.

This Government has pledged to continue to commit the same cash total in funds for farm support for the duration of this parliament, providing much needed certainty to farmers and landowners.

Continued support is critically important, and so is reform. We need to take the opportunity that being outside the Common Agricultural Policy will give us to use public money to reward environmentally responsible land use.

The Government has pledged to work with farmers, food producers and environmentalists across Britain to devise a new agri-environment system.