Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 65607

Food: Public Sector

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, what steps his Department is taking to increase the proportion of British-grown food procured by the public sector.

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. The new national procurement policy statem...
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