Food Integrity and Food Crime Group

(asked on 4th September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the written statement of 4 September 2014, on Elliott Review, which departments will be represented on that group and at what level of seniority; what the membership will be of that group; and when that group will meet; what the terms of reference are of the cross-government group on Food Integrity and Food Crime.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 11th September 2014

Food Integrity and Food Crime will be a cross-Government strategic group chaired by me. The group is being established to bring together departments with a shared interest in the integrity of the food chain, consumer protection and confidence in food, food surveillance and crime, with the purpose of strengthening the co-ordination of the Government’s activity in these areas.

Members of the group will be Government Ministers from the Department of Health, Business Innovations and Skills and the Home Office, and the Chairman of the Food Standards Agency. It will be supported by a cross-departmental group of senior officials chaired by the Permanent Secretary to Defra.

A date for the first meeting this autumn is being arranged. The Terms of Reference and full membership details will be available shortly.

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