Question reference: S5W-31244
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 17 August 2020
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Current status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Fergus Ewing on 18 August 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its plans are for setting out a statement of policy on food, in light of a Good Food Nation Bill no longer being introduced in the current parliamentary session.
Answer
We are beginning a process of developing a non-statutory statement of policy on food that will incorporate the experience gained in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, ongoing work under the umbrella of the Good Food Nation policy and, more widely, work such as the EU Farm to Fork Strategy and the UK Government’s National Food Strategy. The intention is that this work will be led by the Ministerial Working Group on Food to ensure that the cross cutting approach that is needed to take forward key aspects of national policy is in place. This work is in the initial stages and further details will be available in due course.