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Agriculture: Subsidies

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 165543, tabled on 18 July 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will assess the potential merits of ensuring that farm support payments are dependent on farmers improving performance against animal welfare standards after the UK has left the EU.

Answered on

24 July 2018

We have some of the highest welfare standards in the world and will maintain these once we leave the EU. We have recently consulted on our future agricultural policy, which included proposing using public money to fund public goods including animal welfare. We are considering the responses and will publish a report of the findings in due course.