Agriculture: Cooperatives
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to take steps to help support the expansion of the number of co-operatives in farming.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
The Government strongly supports the benefits co-operatives can bring and recognises the important role they play in food security, the resilience of the food sector and as a lifeline for community access to food.
Through the food strategy, Defra is considering how to better support local and place-based initiatives to deliver the changes needed for resilience, including food and farming co-operatives and mutuals.
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