Food Supply
(asked on 23rd March 2017) - 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 assessment her Department has made of the level of the UK's self-sufficiency in food in each of the last 10 years; and if she will make a statement.
In the most recently published figures the UK production to supply ratio for all food is 61% and for indigenous food 76%. These figures have been relatively constant over the previous 10 years.
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2005 | 60 | 73 |
2006 | 59 | 72 |
2007 | 60 | 73 |
2008 | 60 | 73 |
2009 | 59 | 72 |
2010 | 61 | 75 |
2011 | 64 | 78 |
2012 | 63 | 77 |
2013 | 60 | 73 |
2014 | 62 | 76 |
2015 | 61 | 76 |
The Production to Supply ratio is published annually in the “Agriculture in the UK” statistical publication.