Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of food procured by his Department is sourced in the UK.
Answered by Daniel Zeichner
Defra does not hold information on where food procured by the department is sourced from. However, for the first time ever, as announced in January and starting right away, the Government will review food currently bought in the public sector and where it is bought from. This work will be a significant first step to inform any future changes to public sector food procurement policies and help make it an equal playing field for British farmers to bid into the £5 billion spent each year on public sector catering contracts.
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