Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food

(asked on 26th April 2023) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of her Department's budget was spent on food for her Department in each of the last five years; and how much and what proportion of that food was produced by UK farmers.


Answered by
Mark Spencer Portrait
Mark Spencer
This question was answered on 3rd May 2023

The table below sets out the proportion of separately identifiable expenditure on food compared with the resource DEL (Departmental Expenditure Limits) budget in the last five financial years available. No record is kept of how much or what proportion of that food was produced by UK farmers.

Financial Year

Expenditure on Food (£000)

Resource DEL Budget (£000)

Proportion spent on Food

2017-18

5,581

1,855,729

0.30%

2018-19

639

1,995,502

0.03%

2019-20

4,364

2,245,132

0.19%

2020-21

1,032

4,621,397

0.02%

2021-22

795

4,288,950

0.02%

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