Select Committee on Food, Poverty, Health and the Environment
Hungry for change: fixing the failures in food
Report of Session 2019-21 - published 6 July 2020 - HL Paper 85
Contents
The inquiry and the Committee’s work
Chapter 2: The current situation
Figure 1: Breakdown of Gross Value Added (GVA) per food sector and employment figures per sector
Figure 2: UK Trade in different food groups, 2018
Figure 3: UK grocery market shares, 2017/18
Current Government intervention
Chapter 3: Poverty and food insecurity
Box 2: Experiences of food insecurity
Box 3: Experiences of food insecurity
Box 4: Experiences of food insecurity
Box 5: Experiences of food insecurity
People with no recourse to public funds
Difficulty accessing a healthy diet
Affordability of healthy diets
Figure 6: The 13 main categories of average weekly household expenditure, UK, 2018/19
Figure 7: Average weekly household expenditure on the 33 main categories of foods, UK, 2018/19
What is the cost of a healthy diet?
Practical barriers to accessing a healthy diet
Box 6: Why don’t people just make soup?
Chapter 4: The food environment
Experiences of the food environment
Measures to address the food environment
Table 1: Progress of proposals in Chapter 2, Childhood Obesity: a plan for action (July 2018)
Suggested interventions to improve the food environment
Box 7: Experiences of food insecurity
Box 8: Experiences of food insecurity
The marketing and promotion of food
Box 9: Experiences of food insecurity
Education and public health messaging
Chapter 5: Reformulation and regulation
Existing reformulation measures
Voluntary reformulation programmes
Voluntary reformulation programmes: conclusions
Creating a level playing field
The case for reformulation: conclusions
Chapter 6: Food and the natural environment
Impact of food production on the environment
What is a sustainable food system?
Food production and public health
Financial support for horticulture
Resilience and continuity of supply
Chapter 7: Governance, accountability and food policy
Setting an ambition for the food system
National Food Strategy: England
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Appendix 4: Acronyms and abbreviations
Appendix 5: Experiences of food insecurity
Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/408/food-poverty-health-and-environment-committee/ and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.