Food Supply: Inflation
(asked on 30th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies on food security of trends in the level of inflation.
This question was answered on 6th February 2024
The Government’s UK Food Security Report (UKFSR) contains an analysis of statistical data relating to food security.
Defra will publish the next version later this year, as required by the 2020 Agriculture Act.
It will include analysis of the trends of price inflation, international commodity prices, energy and fertiliser prices in the context of UK food security.