Food: Prices
2026-06-07 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · 7904 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of recent increases in agricultural input costs on food price inflation over the next 12 months.
Answer
Government is taking seriously the impacts of the Middle East Conflict on the UK’s food and farming sectors and monitoring the effects of the crisis as they emerge. This Government is taking action to ease that pressure. We are aware that fertiliser price...