Question follow-through · 24497
Food: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what metrics the Government plans to use to measure progress towards the commitment that 50% of publicly procured food should be local or produced to higher environmental standards.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what metrics the Government plans to use to measure progress towards the commitment that 50% of publicly procured food should be local or produced to higher environmental standards.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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7 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Government remains committed to its ambition that 50% of all food sourced by public bodies is locally produced or grown to higher environmental standards. However, information on the origin and sustainability of food in public sector supply chains is ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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