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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2025 to Question 64014 on Food Supply, by what metrics his Department (a) measures and (b) forecasts annual domestic food production.

Defra produces a comprehensive set of metrics to measure annual domestic food production but does not produce forecasts of domestic food production. These statistics cover a wide range of indicators, including:

• Arable & Horticultural crop areas
• Crop yields
• Volume of production and value of crops, fruit and vegetables, red meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs
• Volume of production of dairy and egg products
• Imports and exports of agricultural commodities
• Total domestic uses of these commodities
• Livestock populations, including the breeding population, of cattle, pigs, sheep, and poultry
• Production to Supply ratios of all major agricultural commodities

These metrics are publicly available in either the annual publication "Agriculture in the United Kingdom" at Agriculture in the United Kingdom - GOV.UK or on the Food & Farming Statistics publication page at Food, Farming and Bio-security statistics - GOV.UK.