Question follow-through · 119651
Agriculture: Cooperatives
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help raise awareness of the co-operative business model among new entrants to agriculture.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 23 Mar 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help raise awareness of the co-operative business model among new entrants to agriculture.
12 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government strongly supports the benefits co-operatives can bring in buying inputs, coordinating production, and selling outputs, and recognises the important role they play in promoting sustainable farming. The Government is developing the new Farmer...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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