Question follow-through · 16407
Fertilisers and Red Diesel: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to encourage greater transparency for farmers on the price of fertiliser and red diesel.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to encourage greater transparency for farmers on the price of fertiliser and red diesel.
9 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2026
Answer published
Food security is a priority for the Government, and Defra are 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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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