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Baroness Grender (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 8 September 2026

Debate

El Niño

Contribution

My Lords, does the Minister agree that it is faintly ironic for the Secretary of State to advise households to stockpile food when the UK has fallen to being 65% self-sufficient in what we eat? Given the UN’s warning that 50 million people worldwide face acute hunger from this super El Niño, what assessment have the Government made specifically of risks to British food security?

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