To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will place in the Library a copy of the concordat governing the relationship between his Department and the Northern Ireland administration. (145937)

My Department does not currently have a concordat with the Northern Ireland Executive but will work with colleagues in the devolved Administration in Northern Ireland to develop one. A copy will be laid in the House when this has been done.

The principles set out in the Memorandum of Understanding and Supplementary Agreements between the UK Government, Scottish Ministers, the Cabinet of the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Executive, published in 2001, continue to underpin our working relationship with the Northern Ireland Executive.