Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 65617
Food: Local Government
Tabled: 7 July 2025
Answered: 15 July 2025
Question
Rupert Lowe
Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has considered providing fiscal incentives to local authorities that prioritise British food in their catering contracts.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerThe Government is open to considering all lawful means of achieving its ambition that half of all food purchased across the public sector should be locally produced or certified to higher environmental standards. We have already published a new national p...
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