Question follow-through · 29261
Food: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Cabinet Office’s 2026 National Capabilities Assessment, what steps her Department is taking to establish greater oversight of food supply chain resilience preparedness.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 11 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 21 Sept 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
11 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Cabinet Office’s 2026 National Capabilities Assessment, what steps her Department is taking to establish greater oversight of food supply chain resilience preparedness.
15 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Sept 2026
Answer published
As set out in the UK Government Resilience Action Plan, the Cabinet Office provides scrutiny of response capabilities across the UK Government through National Capabilities Assessments which take place every two to three years. Defra considers these asses...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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