To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what discussions her Department has had will the European Commission on the recent Thomsen judgment in respect of the management of milk quotas with regard to (a) whether quotas are for the beneficial use of the named holder or the farm holding and (b) whether any beneficial trade in entitlements attaches to the landowner or tenant in the case of rented holdings. [108771]

None. The discussions that my officials held with the European Commission on the Thomsen judgment concerned the timing of implementation of the judgment.