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...