Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum

Next steps for food security in the UK

Morning, Thursday, 20^th January 2022
Online

Keynote Speakers: Katrina Walsh, Policy Director, International Meat Trade Association; Professor Julia Aglionby, University of Cumbria; Executive Director, Foundation for Common Land; and Chair, Uplands Alliance; Chris Tyas, Director of Food Supplies, Defra; and Chair, GS1 UK; Sue Davies, Head of Consumer Rights and Food Policy, Which?; Professor Sandy Thomas, Director, Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition and Chair, Science Council, UK Food Standards Agency; David Baldock, Senior Fellow, Agriculture and Land Management Programme, The Institute for European Environmental Policy; Dustin Benton, Policy Director, Green Alliance; and formerly Chief Analytical Adviser, National Food Strategy; Emma Piercy, Head of Climate Change and Energy Policy, Food and Drink Federation and Dan Crossley, Executive Director, Food Ethics Council

Next steps for UK fisheries

Morning, Wednesday, 26^th January 2022

Keynote Speakers: Andrew Kuyk, Director General, UK Seafood Industry Alliance; Michael Coyle, Interim Director of Operations, Marine Management Organisation; Duncan Vaughan, Senior Specialist - Marine Fisheries, Natural England and Mike Rowe, Director, Marine & Fisheries, Defra

Lord Deben

Tackling food waste in households, industry, and agriculture - next steps for policy coordination, targets, implementation, and innovation in packaging

Morning, Tuesday, 8^th February 2022
Online

Keynote Speaker: Lord Deben, Chairman, Climate Change Committee

Professor Jonathan Valabhji

Next steps for tackling obesity - Government strategy and priorities for the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and the Office for Health Promotion

Morning, Friday, 1^st April 2022
Online

Keynote Speaker: Professor Jonathan Valabhji, National Clinical Director of Obesity and Diabetes, NHS England

The Food Strategy White Paper and next steps for the UK’s food system

Morning, Wednesday, 20^th April 2022
Online

Next steps for science and technology in UK agriculture

Morning, Tuesday, 26^th April 2022
Online

Keynote Speakers: Katrina Hayter, Challenge Director, Transforming Food Production, Innovate UK and Professor Robin May, Chief Scientific Adviser, Food Standards Agency; and Professor of Infectious Disease, University of Birmingham

In Production

The Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum is planning a very full programme for the next 12 months.

Please give us a ring on 01344 864796 or email email info@forumsupport.co.uk to discuss future conferences.

We'd be happy to share ideas on areas to focus on, speaker suggestions, and other ways of getting involved.

Parliamentary Patrons of the Forum

The parliamentary patrons of the Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum are:

Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

Lord Cameron of Dillington

Rt Hon Alistair Carmichael MP

Lord Clement-Jones

Lord Colwyn

Tracey Crouch MP

Baroness Cumberlege

David Duguid MP

Lord Dykes

Nigel Evans MP

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

George Freeman MP

Barry Gardiner MP

Baroness Gardner of Parkes

James Gray MP

Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP

Viscount Hanworth

Sharon Hodgson MP

Rt Hon the Earl Howe

Dame Diana Johnson MP

Rt Hon Dame Eleanor Laing MP

The Earl of Lindsay

Tim Loughton MP

Baroness Masham of Ilton

Baroness Massey of Darwen

Lord McColl of Dulwich

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer

Baroness Morris of Bolton

Lord Moynihan

Neil Parish MP

Baroness Parminter

Rt Hon Sir Mike Penning MP

Viscount Ridley

Baroness Scott of Needham Market

Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP

John Stevenson MP

Lord Stone of Blackheath

Dr Alan Whitehead MP

Rt Hon the Lord Whitty

Baroness Wilcox

Note: parliamentary patrons take no financial interest in the Forum.