Question follow-through · 95532
Food: Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment criteria are used for evaluating applications to food industry investment programmes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 28 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 8 Dec 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment criteria are used for evaluating applications to food industry investment programmes.
2 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Dec 2025
Answer published
Investment is through grants to sustainable farming and food production businesses and prioritised in terms of where it delivers most value. Applications are assessed against published criteria.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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