Question follow-through · 34553
Food: Production
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a Food Production Relief Scheme to provide targeted relief on (a) energy costs and (b) business rates for essential food producers.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 27 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a Food Production Relief Scheme to provide targeted relief on (a) energy costs and (b) business rates for essential food producers.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Mar 2025
Answer published
This Government has a cast iron commitment to food production. We have committed £5 billion over this year and next to the farming and countryside programme which includes the largest ever amount for sustainable food production. We have also committed to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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