Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the contract between BFS Group Ltd and Leidos Supply Ltd for the supply of food to British armed forces personnel throughout the UK, what proportion of eggs used by BFS Group in the service of that contract over the course of financial year 2022-23 were (a) free range eggs, (b) barn eggs and (c) colony-laid eggs.

Information on the proportion of eggs used by the BFS Group in the service of the contract for the supply of UK Deployable Food in financial year 2022-23 is not held. From April 2022 to December 2022 all of the eggs supplied were colony eggs. Free range eggs were introduced in January 2023 for National Training Estate Prime sites supporting Operation INTERFLEX and the Royal Navy. From March 2023 free range eggs were introduced across all sites.