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Vegetable Oils and Fertilisers: Imports

Commons · Question 26333 · Tabled 1 Sep 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 18 Sep 2026

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Asked by James MacCleary

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to reduce the UK's reliance on imported (a) soy, (b) palm oil and (c) phosphorus fertiliser, with reference to the national security assessment on global biodiversit

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Answered by Stephen Morgan, 18 Sep 2026

This Government is committed to improving the resilience of the UK's food system and supply chains in the face of environmental and geopolitical risks. With reference to the findings of the UK's National Security Assessment on global ecosystem degradation...