Oral QuestionDepartment for Exiting the European Union

“What steps he is taking to ensure that farmers can continue to access EU markets after the UK leaves the EU.”

Tabled: 7 March 2018Answered: 15 March 2018

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union

Answer from Hansard

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Pat McFadden)

Since our last oral questions session, the Government have secured a historic agreement with the European Union that removes a huge amount of cost and bureaucracy from our food and drinks industry, that backs British jobs and that will help British consumers. I thank the Paymaster General for all his excellent work on securing that agreement. We have also set out details of how we will reform the state, moving thousands of civil service jobs around the country and launching a new apprenticeship scheme so that young people, wherever they live, have a better chance of good work in the public service.