Sugar Beet: Contracts
Commons · Question 63697 · Tabled 30 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Alicia Kearns
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Common Market Organisation Regulation for sugar in ensuring British Sugar negotiates sugar beet contracts with the grower’s mand
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 7 Jul 2025
The Government recognises the importance of sugar beet farmers who are vital to UK sugar production. Also, that sugar beet itself, used in crop rotations, is beneficial to soil and crop health and allows arable farms a season of “rest” from cereal product...