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HANSARDTopical QuestionsI reassure my hon. Friend that we are well aware of that challenge. My noble Friend Lord Benyon is leading a piece of work on the green market, including looking at where we…28 Apr 2022HANSARDInvasion of Ukraine: UK Food SecurityUkraine is a significant global producer of many agricultural commodities, such as wheat and sunflower oil. The UK is largely self-sufficient in wheat production and imports a…28 Apr 2022HANSARDHousehold Budgets: Food PricesThe hon. Lady is right: I have spoken to Mairi Gougeon of the Scottish Government, and we are going to have the next meeting of the UK Agricultural Partnership at the James Hutton…28 Apr 2022HANSARDHousehold Budgets: Food PricesI have already had many such meetings with the food industry and the agricultural industry about the current situation and the pressures on those input costs. The next meeting of…28 Apr 2022HANSARDHousehold Budgets: Food PricesSince we last gathered for DEFRA oral questions, our noble Friend Lord Plumb has, sadly, passed away. He was a titan of the agriculture industry, and National Farmers Union…28 Apr 2022HANSARDHousehold Budgets: Food PricesOur food security, based on the amount of production we have in this country as a proportion of our consumption, has remained remarkably stable, at around 75%, for the past 22…28 Apr 2022HANSARDHousehold Budgets: Food PricesThe supermarket adjudicator has, in recent years, made good progress in bringing transparency to the way relationships work between suppliers and the supermarkets. In addition,…28 Apr 2022HANSARDHousehold Budgets: Food PricesThe Government are taking action. We have made available an additional £500 million to help households with increased pressure on household budgets. We are also taking measures,…28 Apr 2022HANSARDBudget of the Office for Environmental ProtectionThe Secretary of State is setting out the budget for the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) for the financial year 2022-23 and an indicative budget for five years which…31 Mar 2022HANSARDDelivering the Environment ActWe are today launching our consultation on legally binding targets under the Environment Act to leave our environment in a better state than we found it. This includes a…16 Mar 2022HANSARDFood PricesThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point. Fertiliser prices had spiked even before current events in Ukraine, because the cost of ammonium nitrate is heavily dependent on the…10 Mar 2022HANSARDFood PricesOn my hon. Friend’s final point, we published a highly comprehensive analysis of our food security, including a focus on the production to supply ratio, which showed that we…10 Mar 2022HANSARDFood PricesThe hon. Lady will be aware that the Government have put in place a number of measures to help households, particularly with the sharp increase in energy costs that they face. The…10 Mar 2022HANSARDFood PricesInternational commodity prices are heavily influenced by factors such as energy costs and exchange rates. Recent pressures have been sustained and we have seen food price…10 Mar 2022HANSARDUK-New Zealand Free Trade AgreementIt is important to recognise that New Zealand has always had access to the UK market under an existing World Trade Organisation schedule of around 114,000 tonnes, but in recent…10 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThere is a convention in the sheep meat sector that these international agreements are based on something called the carcass-weight equivalent. That does not always apply to beef.…10 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe harrowing events following the invasion of Ukraine have touched us all. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has received inquiries from many farmers, food…10 Mar 2022HANSARDFood PricesTomorrow, I will attend a special session of the G7 where, with other like-minded countries, we will discuss some of those issues and the impact on international commodity prices.…10 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsYes, we are doing that in fertiliser. We are also exploring options to identify alternative sources of animal protein.10 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe big drivers of household financial insecurity are energy costs, housing costs and so on, and that is why the Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and…10 Mar 2022