Question follow-through · 58933
Food Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to extend funding for charities to redistribute food supplies to local (a) charities and (b) community organisations.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 11 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to extend funding for charities to redistribute food supplies to local (a) charities and (b) community organisations.
13 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2025
Answer published
Defra recently announced grant funding of £13.6 million in 2025/26 to increase the capacity and capability of 12 charities to redistribute surplus food from farms into charitable networks. Applications were open to not-for-profit organisations redistribut...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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