Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 118941

Food: Supply Chains

Tabled: 9 March 2026
Answered: 12 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Helen Morgan

Liberal DemocratNorth Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her department is taking to help ensure that risk in the food supply chain, for example in relation to drought and flooding, is not disproportionately shouldered by producer

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
The Border Target Operating Model Impact Assessment frames economic analysis around business costs/benefits, check rates, and biosecurity risk. It does not model or quantify changes in food import volumes attributable to the post‑2020/BTOM border processe...

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