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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 904697, tabled on 12 June 2025

Question

Tracy Gilbert
Labour
Edinburgh North and Leith
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to increase food security.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Labour
Cambridge
Commons

Answered on

19 June 2025

We are investing over £2.7 billion a year in farming and nature recovery, cutting EU export costs for food producers, and ensuring farmers are well-placed to bid for a fair share of public sector food contracts.

We will make reforms to ensure farmers receive fair payment for food production and have appointed former National Farmers Union president and cross-bench peer Baroness Minette Batters to review barriers to farming profitability.

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