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

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to continue to respect the EU regulations on protected geographical status for products following Brexit.

The Government recognises the economic and cultural importance of our Geographical Indications (GIs) and is working to ensure that they continue to be protected in the future.

Using the powers of the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018, we will transfer into domestic law the EU schemes that currently protect our GIs. This will ensure that when we leave the EU there are UK GI schemes in place that comply with and go beyond the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.