Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of food procured by her Department is sourced in the UK.

To date the government has not held information on where publicly procured food is sourced from.

Starting right away, for the first time ever, this government will review the food currently bought in the public sector to determine the standards that it is meeting, where it is bought from, and look to introduce monitoring for transparency and accountability within those supply chains to ultimately get the best food for the consumer.

This work will be a significant first step to inform any future changes to public sector catering contracts.