{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-2020/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-2020/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/21",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-2020",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Duty to report to Parliament on UK food security",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must, on or before the relevant day and at least once every three years thereafter, prepare and lay before Parliament a report containing an analysis of statistical data relating to food security in the United Kingdom.\n(2) The data analysed in a report under this section may include (among other things) data about the following matters—\n(a) global food availability;\n(b) supply sources for food (including the range of supply sources and the availability to the public of food from domestic and other sources);\n(c) the resilience of the supply chain for food (including in response to disruptions in, or significant price increases for, the supply of energy);\n(d) household expenditure on food (including in comparison to expenditure on other items);\n(e) food safety and consumer confidence in food.\n(3) In this section “relevant day” means the last day before 25 December 2021 which is a sitting day for both Houses of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes and otherwise at 11.1.2021, see s. 57(1)(b)(c)(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/21/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:00:34.562379+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}