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<p>Supporting our food and farming industries and protecting the environment will
form an important part of our exit from the EU. The Department for Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs will be engaging with industry to inform their initial thinking
as part of the wider stakeholder engagement to help shape future agriculture and land
use policy, as well as our 25 year Food and Farming Plan.</p><p>In addition, tourism
and hospitality are a vital part of our economy. In 2015 foreign visitors contributed
£22bn to our economy and the industry as a whole supports some 1.6 million jobs. Since
the referendum result, Government has met a range of representatives from the hospitality
industry. We are confident our exit presents opportunities for growth in hospitality
and we will work closely with the industry to realise these.</p><p>As we conduct our
negotiations, it must be a priority to regain more control of the numbers of people
who come here from Europe. We are considering very carefully the options that are
open to us for our future immigration system. As part of that it is important that
we understand the impacts on the different sectors of the economy and the labour market
from any changes that we make.</p><p> </p>
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