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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing the proportion of food supplied to public sector organisations that is sourced from British farms.

The Government is proud of the food grown by British farms every day of the year, which delivers on the high standards British consumers expect.

We made a commitment for at least half of all food procured by the public sector to be locally sourced or certified to higher environmental standards.

The department is working to deliver this within its legal and trade obligations. The national procurement policy statement this Government published in 2025 sets expectations for government contracts to favour food certified to high environmental standards that high-quality British producers are well-placed to meet.