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Food Supply

Volume 476: debated on Tuesday 3 June 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the Government's strategy is for ensuring security of food supply within the UK. (207041)

Within the UK, domestic food security depends upon diversity of supply and strong trading links (most of the food we import comes from the EU), strong and resilient strategic infrastructure, effective risk management and contingency planning, and critically, for an energy-intensive food chain, security of energy supplies.