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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 15169, tabled on 5 November 2015

Question

Ms Margaret Ritchie
Social Democratic & Labour Party
South Down
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to encourage more retailers to sell milk brands that best support the domestic dairy industry.

Answer

George Eustice
Conservative
Camborne and Redruth
Commons

Answered on

10 November 2015

The Secretary of State has written to all major supermarkets asking them to consider what more they might be able to do to increase their sourcing of UK dairy products and I am holding discussions with individual retailers, to encourage them to do more, particularly on processed dairy products.

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