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Food: Public Sector

Asked by Mary Kelly FoyLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 25 October 2024UIN 9660

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to publish a response to the consultation in 2022 on public sector food and catering policy.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner

The Government is reviewing the policy. Our ambition, set out in our election manifesto, is for half of all food supplied into the public sector to be from local British producers, or certified to higher environmental standards whilst being in line with World Trade Organisation and domestic procurement obligations.

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