Question follow-through · 36357

Department for Work and Pensions: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of food procured by her Department is sourced in the UK.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
11 Mar 2025
Answer
13 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of food procured by her Department is sourced in the UK.

  2. 11 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    To date the Government has not held information on where publicly procured food is sourced from. Starting right away, for the first time ever, this government will review the food currently bought in the public sector to determine the standards that it is...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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