Question follow-through · 11715
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the percentage of food served in canteens in his Department that is British.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 31 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the percentage of food served in canteens in his Department that is British.
31 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2024
Answer published
Catering services at Defra are provided by our facilities management supplier, ISS. In the contract we require ISS to comply with Government Buying Standards (GBS) for food and catering services and ISS is encouraged to meet the best practice criteria of ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Fisheries: Quotas
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