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Proceeding contribution from James Paice (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 30 June 2008. It occurred during Opposition day on Food Security.


Food Security

I am very grateful to the Secretary of State, not least for the way in which he is addressing the subject. He rightly said earlier that I was not calling for protectionism, but does he also accept that I was not calling for self-sufficiency either? I specifically used the phrase ““food security””, which I defined as the capacity to produce the majority of our needs. We have never been fully self-sufficient and nobody is asking us to be.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
478 c671 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Agriculture Competition Biofuels Australia China Genetically modified organisms Food International cooperation Imports Droughts India Food supply Pesticides Prices Migrant workers Supermarkets Shortages Common agricultural policy
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk