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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to ensure that farming standards are adapted to increase organic food production.

We work constructively with the European Commission and other Member States to ensure that the European organic standard works at a practical level for UK producers including through the development of a new organic regulation currently being negotiated.

Supporting our farmers and protecting the environment will form an important part of our exit from the EU. We are now focused on making sure that all our policies are delivering for the UK and to grow our world-leading food and farming industry.