Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 1262

Food: Procurement

Tabled: 23 July 2024

Answered: 26 July 2024

Named Day

Question

Steve Barclay

Conservative — North East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the compatability of mandating a minimum quota of domestic products in public procurement contracts for food with Britain's membership of the World Trade

Answer

Daniel Zeichner

The Government has ambition to source half of all food served in public sector settings from local producers or that has been produced by growers certified to higher environmental standards, where possible. We want to use the purchasing power of the publi...

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