Question follow-through · 46528
Food: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce price controls on food.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce price controls on food.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
It is not for the Government to set retail food prices nor to comment on day-to-day commercial decisions taken by businesses. We continue to monitor all key agricultural commodities. The UK Agriculture Market Monitoring Group monitors UK agricultural mark...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Water: Standards
1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a statutory duty on water companies to protect recreational users of waters in the forthcoming Clean Water Bill.
Water: Standards
1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had discussions with stakeholders representing recreational users of water on the proposed Clean Water Bill.
Countryside: Access
1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her planned timetable is for publication of the Green Paper on access to nature.