Summary A decade after the referendum decision that the UK should leave the EU (Brexit) and its Common Agricultural Policy it is worth considering what has replaced the EU's CAP in the UK. As a Member State the UK had adopted the CAP's objectives set out in the 1957 Treaty of Rome and later supplemented by statements of intent. From the late 1990s responsibility for the enactment of domestic agricultural policy in the UK (though not trade in agricultural products) had been devolved to the national administrations. Thus, even before Brexit the UK possessed a somewhat fragmented policy system which included some national policy measures that ran alongside the CAP, including elements such as tax concessions on vehicle fuel used in agriculture. After Brexit there is a patchwork of measures applying separately in the individual countries of the UK. There is no single articulation of UK policy aims or conceptual framework within which evaluation can take place and reallocations of resources can be readily achieved. In that sense the UK lacks a single agricultural policy. However, while policy analysis sees different perceived problems in the various UK countries, or at least different balances among problems, there is much commonality and coherence in what the various administrations are trying to achieve.
Berkeley Hill (Wed,) studied this question.