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Food: Prices

Asked by Mr Peter BedfordConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 21 October 2025UIN 82201

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help businesses mitigate increases in levels of food inflation.

Answered by Lucy Rigby

The Government prioritises sound public finances, which are essential to economic and financial stability, and delivering economic growth. We are living within our means, reducing our levels of borrowing in the years ahead and supporting the Bank of England to get inflation down. We have already made progress towards this, with five interest rate cuts delivered this since the election.

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