Question follow-through · 8962
Supermarkets: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a Grocery Supply Code of Practice for all (a) upstream and (b) mid-supply chain businesses.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a Grocery Supply Code of Practice for all (a) upstream and (b) mid-supply chain businesses.
16 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Groceries Supply Code of Practice covers direct suppliers to large retailers in the UK and was introduced after a competition investigation into the grocery retail sector. Power imbalances between trading businesses can make smaller parties susceptibl...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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