Second Special Report - Food insecurity: Government response to the Committee’s Second Report

This is the government's response, published 20 October 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.

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