Written questions

Food: Prices

Commons · Question 118125 · Tabled 4 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 12 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by James McMurdock

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of retail food price inflation since 2020 attributable to changes in trading arrangements with the EU.

Answer

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 12 Mar 2026

Consumer food prices are shaped by a variety of factors, such as agri-food import prices, domestic agricultural prices, domestic labour and manufacturing costs, and Sterling exchange rates. Several of these factors are affected by the UK's trading arrange...