Question follow-through · 115607
Food: Public Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress the Government has made in its target to deliver half of the food in the public sector from local and sustainable sources.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 4 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress the Government has made in its target to deliver half of the food in the public sector from local and sustainable sources.
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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4 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government remains committed to ensuring that at least half of public sector food is locally sourced or meets higher environmental standards within legal constraints. There is limited existing data about the origin and sustainability of food in the pu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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