Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 8239

Food

Tabled: 9 October 2024
Answered: 14 October 2024
Named Day

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he will make an assessment of the potential merits of granting protected food status to traditional pie and mash.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Defra officials have already discussed the application process for Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) status with a representative of the producers. They are clear that an application for TSG status requires agreement on the recipe that producers wou...
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