May 2022
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This conference discussed the key priorities for the UK food system, in the build-up to the Government’s Food Strategy White Paper, which responded to the independent review and recommendations of the National Food Strategy.
It took place with the announcement that the Government’s response would be delayed until after local elections in May 2022, and amidst speculation that the Government’s response may not take forward the independent report’s recommendations on HFSS taxation.
Areas for discussion included:
- the Food Strategy White Paper - key stakeholder perspectives, and coordination with wider government policy including the Levelling Up White Paper
- the UK food supply - emerging trends and challenges
- regulation - developing and monitoring an improved food system
- trade - The Trade and Agriculture Commission’s scrutiny of new UK Free Trade Agreements
- public health - priorities for improving accessibility to healthy food and latest government initiatives
- international best practice - developing a holistic food strategy
We are pleased to have been able to include keynote sessions with Jo Gideon MP, Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on the National Food Strategy; Professor Susan Jebb, Chair, Food Standards Agency; Anna Taylor, Executive Director, The Food Foundation; and Chief Independent Adviser, National Food Strategy; Kristin Bash, Chair, Food Specialist Interest Group, Faculty of Public Health; and Honorary Lecturer, Public Health, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield; and Professor Tim Lang, Professor Emeritus of Food Policy, Centre for Food Policy, City University of London.
The conference was an opportunity for stakeholders to consider the issues alongside key policy officials who attended from DHSC; FSA; Food Standards Scotland; Defra; DAERA, NI; Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; NI Environment Agency; CCC; CCS; DIT; FCDO; GLD; NAO; OHID; OSR; The Scottish Government; and the Welsh Government - as well as parliamentary pass-holders from both Houses of Parliament.
