Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 78800

Food: Inflation

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025
Named Day

Question

Dr Neil Hudson

ConservativeEpping Forest

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent trends in the level of inflation for food and drink on food security.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
UK consumer food prices depend on a range of factors including agri-food import prices, domestic agricultural prices, domestic labour and manufacturing costs, and Sterling exchange rates. Changes in food prices are dependent on changes in one or more of t...

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