Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office written question – answered am ar 14 Mawrth 2025.
John Hayes
Ceidwadwyr, South Holland and The Deepings
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of food procured by his Department is sourced in the UK.
Catherine West
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
To date the Government has not held information on where publicly procured food is sourced from. Starting right away, for the first time ever, this government will review the food currently bought in the public sector to determine the standards that it is meeting, where it is bought from and look to introduce monitoring for transparency and accountability within those supply chains to ultimately get the best food for the consumer.
This work will be a significant first step to inform any future changes to public sector food procurement policies as we want to help make it an equal playing field for British producers to bid into the £5 billion spent each year on public sector catering contracts.
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