Question follow-through · 43701
Food: Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using technology to encourage consumers to buy British produce.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 47 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using technology to encourage consumers to buy British produce.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
This Government is committed to ensuring that everyone in Great Britain and Northern Ireland has access to nutritious and fairly priced food. Defra also regularly engages with supermarkets and food producers about a number of issues, including their partn...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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