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Question follow-through · 40498

Food Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure UK food security.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
26 Mar 2025
Answer
28 Mar 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure UK food security.

  2. 26 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Food security is national security. We need a resilient and healthy food system, that works with nature and supports British farmers, fishers and food producers. That is why this Government will introduce a new deal for farmers to boost rural economic gro...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring the person responsible for fly-tipping, rather than the landowner, to bear the costs of clean-up.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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