Question follow-through · 10689
Food: Production
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has a target percentage for UK food production required to support national food security.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has a target percentage for UK food production required to support national food security.
22 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2026
Answer published
The department has set no target for domestic production or consumption, in percentage or volume terms. However, in the recently published Land Use Framework, the Government made a clear, long-term commitment to maintain overall food production in England...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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