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<p>The UK has a high degree of food security, built on access to a range of sources
including strong domestic production and imports from third countries.</p><p> </p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s current production to supply ratio is 60% for all food and
75% for indigenous-type foods. This has remained steady over the last decade and is
not low in the context of the past 150 years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Self-sufficiency
is not in itself an indicator of food security. The UK has historically been a net
importer of food and sources from a diverse range of stable countries and this will
continue once we leave the EU. Achieving increased self-sufficiency in indigenous
products would not necessarily insulate us from shocks to the system, for example,
weather and disease can affect the harvests and yields.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>While
we are making sensible preparations for all eventualities as we leave the EU, there
are no plans to stockpile food. The government has well established ways of working
with the food industry on food supply chain issues.</p><p> </p>
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