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 Zeichner
The 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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