Question follow-through · 12521
Infant Foods: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of the findings of the Food Foundation’s Broken Plate report, published on 10 June 2026.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of the findings of the Food Foundation’s Broken Plate report, published on 10 June 2026.
25 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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26 Jun 2026
Answer published
Defra welcomes the Broken Plate report. It highlights many of the challenges facing our food system, especially around access and affordability of healthy food. The Good Food Cycle sets out the government's vision for the food system. It identifies priori...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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