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Government Departments: Catering

Commons · Question 58335 · Tabled 9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 16 Jun 2025

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Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 54984 to Government Departments: Catering, whether he has made an assessment of the merits of (a) an annual report and (b) a public tr

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 16 Jun 2025

The Government is open to considering all lawful means of achieving its ambition that half of all food purchased across the public sector should be locally produced or certified to higher environmental standards. This could include approaches designed to ...