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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 70447, tabled on 13 April 2017

Question

Calum Kerr
Scottish National Party
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on how the Government's industrial strategy will support food producers.

Answer

George Eustice
Conservative
Camborne and Redruth
Commons

Answered on

20 April 2017

Defra is working closely with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy at ministerial and official level, to ensure the industrial strategy supports the agri-food sector.

The agri-food sector contributes £110 billion per year to our economy and is a big employer in every region of the UK, so is well placed to support growth across the whole country. We will be working with the agri-food sector to develop an industrial strategy that delivers a world-leading food, farming and fishing nation that grows more, sells more and exports more food around the world.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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