Department of Food and Health

HC Deb 17 January 1989 vol 145 c126W

Sir Richard Body

To ask the Prime Minister whether she will now reconsider the proposal to establish a single Department of Food and Health, thereby closing down the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; and whether she will publish an estimate of the effect on public funds of such a proposal.

The Prime Minister

I have no plans to establish a single Department of Food and Health.