The Environment Bill 2019-21 has completed it Committee Stage in the House of Commons. This paper is a summary of what happened in the Committee and how the Bill has changed. It considers key Government and Opposition amendments. It is prepared in advance of the Bill's next stages scheduled for 26 January 2021.
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Food Security - UK Policy (205 KB, PDF)
• Food security for the UK in peacetime has only recently been a subject of concern. Until 2008, the Labour Government justified financial support for farming as a means of obtaining environmental objectives. Even before the election in 2010, however, increasing concern over food security has encouraged renewed emphasis upon food production.
• A related note is Food Miles (SN/SC/4984)
• British Governments have resisted the view that food security concerns should be met by increased subsidy for domestic – or indeed European – agriculture. Instead they have argued for freer international trade.
• However, the British Government has paid increasing attention to the role of domestic food production.
• Several reports have argued that food security problems would return unless appropriate action was taken.
• Food security is closely related to energy security and to the availability of fertilisers.
• The Foresight Report, January 2011 stresses the enormous scale of the problem.
Documents to download
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Food Security - UK Policy (205 KB, PDF)
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