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In the south: riding food costs are not just for Christmas. They also | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2140 seconds | :01:42. | :37:22. | |
mean poorer households are cutting Welcome to Sunday Politics South. | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
My name's Peter Henley. Coming up in the next 20 minutes: the cost of | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
Christmas lunch is on the up, you can blame the sprouts for that - | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
but are cash-strapped households cutting back on healthier foods as | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
the prices rise? We need to talk about Brussels - not the capital of | :37:36. | :37:46. | |
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Belgium, that's up later - but And lots about Maria Miller in the | :37:58. | :38:04. | |
papers this week. These are events from a few years back. Have the | :38:04. | :38:12. | |
papers got it in for her? There is a lot of stuff about never send | :38:12. | :38:22. | |
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around at the moment. Mariette is a fantastic minister. She has an | :38:23. | :38:31. | |
awful lot of respect in Parliament. It will take a while for all of | :38:31. | :38:41. | |
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this to come back but it is a tough It used to be called the Ministry | :38:43. | :38:50. | |
of Fun. Equality has been added to it as well. It is important there | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
is someone in the Cabinet performing that role as appropriate | :38:55. | :39:01. | |
that person should be a woman. The Prime Minister has not performed | :39:01. | :39:11. | |
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that well in terms of promoting Hopefully Maria will get a clean | :39:24. | :39:30. | |
bill of health and we will get to a position where we can look at how | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
MPs' expenses are being handled because the cost of regulating the | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
system is almost as much as the amount of expenses that MPs are | :39:39. | :39:45. | |
entitled to claim. What she has been accused of is from a long time | :39:45. | :39:55. | |
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ago. Maria is doing a great job. That is the most important thing. | :40:20. | :40:25. | |
Now we need to talk about Brussels. Not the capital of Belgium but | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
sprouts. Tradionally hated by children everywhere on Christmas | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
Day, but now well on their way to becoming a luxury food. In the last | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
year the average price of a kilo of sprouts has gone up by 24%, and in | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
the same 12 months potatoes are up by 40%, and even the Christmas pud | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
is 15% more expensive. It's not just the cost of your Christmas | :40:44. | :40:50. | |
fare that's a problem. According to the government's annual Family Food | :40:50. | :40:53. | |
Survey out this week lower income families are buying a third less | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
fruit and a fifth less veg than five years ago. Joining me now is | :40:56. | :40:59. | |
Richard Tiffin, Director of the Centre for Food Security at Reading | :40:59. | :41:08. | |
University. It is pretty rapid change some of these price rises. | :41:08. | :41:14. | |
Is it making a big impact in the way people behave? Yes, people are | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
making decisions about the kind of food they can consume and we are | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
seeing a lot less fruit and vegetables being consumed and that | :41:24. | :41:30. | |
is worrying. Those price changes significantly affecting the | :41:30. | :41:36. | |
healthiness of people's diet. of it is a crop failure but there | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
is a short-term thing but the long- term thing is it will be more | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
expensive. There are a number of different factors causing that. | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
They raised climate change of meaning that yields are more | :41:49. | :41:54. | |
susceptible to extreme events, flooding, drought. There is | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
increased demand in the developing countries globally which is meaning | :41:59. | :42:04. | |
that people are consuming more food there, creating greater competition | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
for food globally and driving prices up as a result and there is | :42:08. | :42:14. | |
increased linkages between the food market and the energy market so | :42:15. | :42:23. | |
energy it is a major component of food production. Also now we grow a | :42:23. | :42:33. | |
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lot of crops for energy production.. A certain amount of agricultural | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
production has to go towards the production of a fuels. There is | :42:43. | :42:48. | |
some arguing that some providing those fuel mandates provide | :42:48. | :42:58. | |
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insurance against... If they can be flexible. In Britain are the only | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
having a small issue with this compared to developing countries. | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
Absolutely. There is a great contention to worry about these | :43:20. | :43:26. | |
small changes in price that are affecting us but we have to | :43:26. | :43:32. | |
recognise that on average the UK average consumer spends 11 % of | :43:32. | :43:41. | |
their income on food. Even the poorest Spence 70 % on their -- of | :43:41. | :43:48. | |
their income. In the developing world, that is more than 60 %. The | :43:48. | :43:58. | |
source of price rises have a severe impact on those sorts of countries. | :43:58. | :44:02. | |
It is Christmas time, Christmas parties will be rocking to the | :44:02. | :44:09. | |
sound of today know it is Christmas. 20 years since the Live Aid event | :44:09. | :44:15. | |
we still have a building people undernourished and hungry and | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
tragedies like the food crisis in the so hell are unfolding as we | :44:20. | :44:29. | |
speak. Jim, with your DEFRA hat on here, this is a serious problem for | :44:29. | :44:33. | |
the world in general but it is a serious issue for us as well. We | :44:33. | :44:42. | |
are wasting so much food in this country. It is a massive issue. | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
Prude affordability internationally is something that will destabilise | :44:46. | :44:52. |