Brexit: Trade in food inquiry
Inquiry by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, 13 September 2017 to 4 May 2018. Its page on the Parliament website.
Reports and responses
- 3rd Report - Brexit: Trade in Food (18 February 2018)
- 8th Special Report - Brexit: Trade in Food: Government Response to the Committee’s Third Report (4 May 2018)
Evidence sessions
- 1 November 2017: Jilly Greed, co-founder, Ladies in Beef, Christopher Dodds, Executive Secretary, Livestock Auctioneers Association Limited, Nick Allen, Chief Executive, British Meat Processors Association, and Jane Bassett, Peak District sheep farmer; Phil Stocker, Chief Executive, National Sheep Association, Michael Haverty, Senior Agricultural Economist, The Andersons Centre, Chris Mallon, Chief Executive, National Beef Association, and Phil Hardy, Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (at 3.30pm).
- 15 November 2017: Sian Thomas, Communications Manager, Fresh Produce Consortium, Raoul Curtis-Machin, Director of Horticulture, Horticultural Trades Association, and Nick Marston, Director, British Summer Fruits ; Sarah Mukherjee, Chief Executive, Crop Protection Association, Dr Martin Grantley-Smith, Strategy Director Cereals & Oilseeds, Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), and Michael Hambly, Chairman, NFU Crop Boards (at 3.45pm).
- 29 November 2017: Michael Oakes, Chairman, NFU Dairy Board, Paul Vernon, Chair, Dairy UK, Nick Whelan, Group Chief Executive, Dale Farm, and Ash Amirahmadi, Senior Vice President of Sales, Arla Foods UK; Edward Barker, Senior Policy Adviser, National Pig Association, Richard Griffiths, Chief Executive, British Poultry Council, Peter Allan, General Manager, Cargill Meats Europe, and Andrew Saunders, Agriculture Director, Tulip Ltd. (at 3.45pm).
- 6 December 2017: Tim Martin, Chairman, J D Wetherspoon, Sue Davies, Strategic Policy Adviser, Which?, and Kath Dalmeny, Chief Executive, Sustain; David Thomson, CEO FDF Scotland, Food and Drink Federation, and Andrew Opie, Director of Food and Sustainability, British Retail Consortium (at 3.45pm).
- 20 December 2017: Rt Hon. Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and George Eustice MP, Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.