Organic Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much in-season organic food has been grown in the UK each year since 2000. (98285)

The Government collect information from UK organic certification bodies relating to land area utilised but not the volume of food produced. This information is shown in the following table.

*UK organic and in-conversion land use (2000-06)*
	Thousand hectares
December 2000	527.3
December 2001	679.6
June 2002	699.9
December 2002	724.5
March 2003	741.2
January 2004	695
January 2005	674.5
January 2006	619.9

Volume 451: debated on Monday 6 November 2006