Question follow-through · 91954
Food: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help tackle rising food costs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help tackle rising food costs.
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2025
Answer published
UK consumer food prices depend on a range of factors, including agri-food import prices, domestic agricultural prices, domestic labour and manufacturing costs, and Sterling exchange rates. On 19 November, the Secretary of State announced Defra is working ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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