Oral QuestionDepartment of Health and Social Care

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 11 November 2020Answered: 17 November 2020

Asked by

Mike Wood

ConservativeKingswinford and South Staffordshire

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Answer from Hansard

The Prime Minister

The right hon. Gentleman is right to raise food security. Obviously, that is one resilience that we need and must protect in this country. We also need to move to secure independence of energy, because one thing that is making life so much harder for all those in the food sector is that their energy prices go up every time an international conflict affects the prices here. By getting energy independence, which requires infrastructure, we can protect them from that and therefore make them more resilient.