Fresh Food Ideas? Some new MPs look ahead

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As MPs return to Westminster after the summer recess, The Food Programme catches up with three of the newer recruits to discuss future food policies.

Sheila Dillon meets Dr Simon Opher MP (Labour), Aphra Brandreth MP (Conservative) and Sarah Dyke MP (Liberal Democrat) at the head office and kitchens of catering firm Social Pantry, who work with ex-prisoners on their zero-waste food offering.

The questions come from some familiar voices to The Food Programme, including Dr Chris Van Tulleken, Asma Khan, Nicole Pisani (Chefs in Schools), Professor Tim Lang and Helen Browning (Soil Association).

Can this group of MPs push food and farming up the agenda in Parliament, and if so - what will be their focus?

Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced in Bristol by Natalie Donovan

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0:43.6	Hello and welcome to the food program.
0:46.2	Today we're in Battersea just south of the Thames
0:48.8	in West London in an industrial unit,
0:51.6	one that prepares food.
0:54.6	It's back to work week for lots of us,
0:56.8	including the 330 new MPs who are beginning
1:01.0	their new lives in the Houses of Parliament in earnest.
1:05.2	So as the government begins of fresh, we're going to spend today discovering how fresh some
1:09.3	of the thinking about food might be in this new parliament.
1:13.8	We've brought together three new MPs
1:16.0	from the three largest political parties,
1:18.5	though one is slightly less new than the others.
1:21.7	From Labour, we have Dr Simon Ofer, MP for Stroud, who is also a working
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