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Lord Katz (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 8 September 2026

Debate

El Niño

Contribution

The comments my colleague the Secretary of State made simply called for awareness and preparedness. That is a precautionary route to take, rightly. As I said in answer to my noble friend, as it stands, the intelligence we have is that there is no evidence that the El Niño event will lead to food security issues for the UK. Of course, we work with organisations, including the UK Agriculture Market Monitoring Group, which monitors UK agriculture markets around issues of price, supply, inputs, trade and other recent developments, to keep this under review. As I said, as it stands, there is no evidence that this event will cause food security problems for our country.

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