Select committee: International Development Committee
Recommendation 17
Second report - Food insecurity
Published 1 Jul 2022
Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
countries. The Government must work with international partners to:
From: International Development Committee, Second report - Food insecurity (HC 504), 1 July 2022
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 20 October 2022 (deadline 1 September 2022).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government agrees with the Committee's conclusion that the world faces a catastrophic hunger crisis, and responds to its recommendations by marking each as accepted or partially accepted.
- On publishing a comprehensive strategy to address food insecurity, the government "Partially Accept[s]". It points to the FCDO's "comprehensive action plan" and offers to make the latest full version available to the Committee "on request".
- It accepts the recommendation to increase humanitarian funding for food assistance, stating that it "is intending to increase our humanitarian funding to £3 billion over the next 3 years" as set out in the international development strategy.
- On empowering the Global Alliance for Food Security, it "Partially Accept[s]". It says the Alliance "is not yet at a stage of securing the provision, delivery and distribution of food assistance" and that "GAFS must not duplicate processes that already work well".
- It accepts the recommendation to support Ukraine's food exports, citing £10m of support to Ukrainian Railways to help repair bridges and other rail infrastructure and facilitate grain exports.