Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food
Question
Tim Farron
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of her Department's budget was spent on food for her Department in each of the last five years; and how much and what proportion of that food was produced by UK farmers.
Answer
The table below sets out the proportion of separately identifiable expenditure on food compared with the resource DEL (Departmental Expenditure Limits) budget in the last five financial years available. No record is kept of how much or what proportion of that food was produced by UK farmers.
Financial Year | Expenditure on Food (£000) | Resource DEL Budget (£000) | Proportion spent on Food |
2017-18 | 5,581 | 1,855,729 | 0.30% |
2018-19 | 639 | 1,995,502 | 0.03% |
2019-20 | 4,364 | 2,245,132 | 0.19% |
2020-21 | 1,032 | 4,621,397 | 0.02% |
2021-22 | 795 | 4,288,950 | 0.02% |