Food Supply

(asked on 13th April 2017) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the UK food self-sufficiency was in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013, (d) 2014, (e) 2015 and (f) 2016.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 20th April 2017

In the most recently published figures from Agriculture in the UK, production to supply ratio for all food is 61 per cent, and for indigenous food 76 per cent. These figures have been relatively constant over the previous 10 years.

Year

All food %

Indigenous type food %

2011

64

78

2012

63

77

2013

60

73

2014

62

76

2015

61

76

The next publication of Agriculture in the UK will be on 25 May 2017 and this will include the 2016 production to supply figures.

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