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Food: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of retail food price inflation since 2020 attributable to changes in trading arrangements with the EU.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 4 Mar 2026
Target answer date: 9 Mar 2026
Answer: 12 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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4 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of retail food price inflation since 2020 attributable to changes in trading arrangements with the EU.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2026
Answer published
Consumer food prices are shaped by a variety of factors, such as agri-food import prices, domestic agricultural prices, domestic labour and manufacturing costs, and Sterling exchange rates. Several of these factors are affected by the UK's trading arrange...

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