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(asked on 2nd November 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of cost pressures on the English fruit and vegetable sector.


Answered by
Victoria Prentis Portrait
Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 17th November 2021

Together with the devolved administrations, Defra has established the UK Agricultural Market Monitoring Group (UKAMMG) to monitor and assess the impact of agricultural market developments across the UK, including on cost pressures on the fruit and vegetable sector.


The UKAMMG monitors UK agricultural markets including price, supply, trade and recent developments, enabling it to provide forewarning of any atypical market movements. This includes discussions on input costs such as fertilisers. The UKAMMG will flag where further investigation of market developments is required and when policy teams and Ministers should be informed of any developments. The notes of these meetings are available on gov.uk.

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