Question follow-through · 2430
Fertilisers and Red Diesel: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure greater transparency in fertiliser and red diesel supply chains.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2026
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2026 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure greater transparency in fertiliser and red diesel supply chains.
20 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jun 2026
Answer published
Food security is a priority for the Government, and Defra is taking the impacts from the Middle East conflict seriously. The Government has increased the frequency of official fertiliser price reporting, now published by the AHDB on a weekly basis. This w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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