Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 30584

Food: Prices

Tabled: 11 February 2025
Answered: 5 March 2025

Question

Damian Hinds

ConservativeEast Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the retail price of a basket of food goods (a) in cash terms and (b) as a proportion of average family income spent on food goods in (i) the UK

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The Office for National Statistics reports the average weekly household expenditure on food and non-alcoholic beverages in the UK, which is collected via ONS’s Living Costs and Food Survey and published in Family Spending in the UK. OECD Data Explorer pub...

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