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Invasion of Ukraine: UK Food Security

Published date : 28 April, 2022
7. What recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on food security in the UK.

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The conflict in Ukraine shows the fragility of many of our supply lines, and it has certainly increased the cost of many inputs and is disrupting the sector considerably. In order to minimise these effects, will the Secretary of State look again with his colleagues at having a more flexible immigration strategy and at uniting again on our sanitary and phytosanitary approach with the European Union, and take steps to make sure we are putting our food security on the same level as our energy security?

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