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	registered interest
	date	07/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food Supply
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the Food Security Index will be measured; and whether it will include nature-friendly farming practices.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	17700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The first draft of the new annual Food Security Index will be published at the Farm to Fork Summit this spring. We are in the process of developing the content of the index. We expect it will include a selection of indicators giving an assessment of food security across the five themes identified in the UK Food Security Report, including domestic food supply. Productive, resilient and environmentally sustainable domestic food production is a key element of our food security.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 12/03/2024 14:39:17 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1507350

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2022
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food Supply
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he will take to increase food (a) security, (b) resilience and (c) localised routes to market in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	53494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>Recognising the importance of food security, in the Agriculture Act 2020, HM Government made a commitment to produce an assessment of our food security at least once every three years. The first UK Food Security Report was published in December 2021. It recognised the contribution made by British farmers to our resilience, and the importance of strong domestic production alongside trade with stable countries to our food security.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s high degree of food security is built on supply from diverse sources. We produce 61% of all the food we need, and 74% of food which we can grow or rear in the UK for all or part of the year (figures which have changed little over the last 20 years). International trade supplements domestic production, and also ensures that any disruption from risks such as adverse weather or disease does not affect the UK's overall security of supply.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has well established ways of working with the industry and across HM Government to monitor risks that may arise. This includes extensive, regular and ongoing engagement in preparedness for, and response to, issues with the potential to cause disruption to food supply chains.</p><p> </p><p>As HM Government, we have a Manifesto commitment that we want people at home and abroad to be lining up to buy British. One of our key focuses is to support the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which make up 97.8% of food and drink manufacturing businesses.</p><p> </p><p>HM Government hosted a Regional Food and Drink Summit in Birmingham in March 2022. The Summit successfully brought together SMEs and regional organisations to share best practice and access support to grow their business through exporting, selling direct to consumers, accessing public sector procurement opportunities and promoting their products at a regional level.</p><p> </p><p>Building on the Summit we will continue to empower businesses and regional organisations to leverage growth opportunities, champion their regional food identity and develop links with local tourism through a series of regional workshops and guides.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 11/10/2022 08:38:11 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1462656

	registered interest
	date	12/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food Supply
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of the war in Ukraine on the UK's food supply chain.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	1321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2022 answer text <p>Our food import dependency on the Eastern Europe region is very low. We do not expect any significant direct impact on overall UK food supply as a result of the conflict in Ukraine.</p><p>We are, however, working closely with the food and feed industry to understand the impacts of the situation in Ukraine on sunflower seed, oil or sunseed meal supplies, while the Food Standards Agency has informed consumers that refined rapeseed oil, palm oil, coconut oil and soyabean oil may start to replace sunflower oil in some products.</p><p>We speak regularly with food industry figures, who remain confident in the food supply chain. We continue to keep the market situation under review through the UK Agriculture Market Monitoring Group, which monitors UK agricultural markets including price, supply, inputs, trade and recent developments. We have also increased our engagement with industry to supplement our analysis with real time intelligence.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 20/05/2022 11:11:41 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel