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Food: Consumption

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 11 March 2026UIN 118123

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of food consumed in the UK that was domestically produced in each of the last five years.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The proportion of UK food consumption that is domestically produced is shown in the below table, for the latest available years. This information is published annually in Defra’s Agriculture in the UK report. 2020202120222023202454%58%58%58%57%

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