Secretary of State faces EFRA on water sector, farming support and food security
Defra Secretary Emma Reynolds will face questions on a range of topics that the EFRA Committee has examined in this Parliament.
MPs are likely to ask the Secretary of State and senior officials (full witness details below) about the following:
- Corporate leadership of water companies and the future of Thames Water
- The Farming Road Map, Environmental Land Management schemes and Sustainable Farming Initiatives
- Supply chain fairness, food security and prices
- Biosecurity and the forthcoming UK-EU sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) deal
- Support for the UK’s fishing sector
- Climate adaptation, including coastal erosion and wildfires
Meeting details
At 2:30pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
Work of the Department and its arm’s-length bodies
Secretary of State at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Director General for Strategy and Water at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Director General for Food, Biosecurity and Trade at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Other topics relating to the work of Defra and its arm’s-length bodies may also be raised.