Question follow-through · 7114
Food Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to take legislative steps to ensure food self-sufficiency does not fall below its current level.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to take legislative steps to ensure food self-sufficiency does not fall below its current level.
9 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2026
Answer published
In the recently published Land Use Framework, the Government made a clear, long-term commitment to maintain overall food production in England by increasing farm productivity and profitability. The Government will support this ambition through a range of ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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