Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to promote increased vegetable consumption at the Food Foundations Veg Summit on 24 October 2017.

At the Food Foundations vegetable Summit of 24 October, the Minister took part in a panel to discuss vegetable production. At the Summit, I pledged that Government would launch a new web market that food producers, including vegetable producers, could use to promote their products to public sector bodies to increase public procurement of nutritious local food.