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Agriculture and Food: Migrant Workers

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 5131, tabled on 17 July 2017

Question

Ben Lake
Plaid Cymru
Ceredigion
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union on ensuring the availability of migrant workers for the agriculture and food manufacturing sectors when the UK leaves the EU.

Answer

George Eustice
Conservative
Camborne and Redruth
Commons

Answered on

20 July 2017

Defra Ministers have ongoing discussions with a range of government departments, including the Department for Exiting the European Union, about securing the workforce that the agriculture and food manufacturing industries need for the future.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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