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Select committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

First Special Report - Food Security: Government Response to the Committee’s Seventh Report of 2022-23

Published 17 November 2023

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Food Security Report on parliament.uk ↗

At a glance

The government's response

This document responds to Seventh Report - Food security.

This is the government's response, published 17 November 2023.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government says it "takes all aspects of food security very seriously" but, across the report's recommendations, mostly points to existing measures and gives few new commitments, with some proposals declined or not planned.

  • On an annual UK Food Security Report, it says "We do not have plans to make the UKFSR an annual publication" and that the next report will be published by December 2024.
  • On the Cabinet Office review of food policy structures, it "agrees with the need for policy coherence and for strong leadership", but points to existing cross-Whitehall structures rather than committing to a review.
  • On free school meals, it says it does "not have plans to change the current eligibility conditions" but "will continue to keep eligibility under review"; on a sugar and salt tax, it does not consider "now is the right time".
  • On the Shropshire labour review, it is "currently considering the recommendations and intend[s] to publish a response before the end of the year".

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