Food Prices

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 2:14 pm on 29 November 2017.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 2:14, 29 November 2017

Unlike Mark Reckless, I'm not looking forward to the world of chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef, so I hope that we continue to have the high quality of food standards that we currently enjoy.

The messages coming from the British Ports Authority if we were to leave the customs union are not very optimistic, in the sense that whilst we currently have a free passport of goods to and from Britain, were we to crash out of the European Union this could actually bring all transactions to a horrible halt. And where we're talking about fresh produce, why would anybody bother to import fresh produce if they don't think they're going to be able to get it to market in time? I just wondered what assessment the Government has made of the impact of leaving the customs union, and the impact it would have on the food that we currently import, particularly fresh produce from the European Union.