Right To Food UK Commission

The Right To Food UK Commission, announced in September 2025, will interrogate and report on the scale and scope of food poverty and hunger in the UK today.

The Commission will be based out of the UK Parliament and take evidence from around the UK. It has been established jointly by the Right To Food Campaign, which is led in Parliament by Ian Byrne MP for Liverpool West Derby, the University of Westminster, the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) and the Food and Work Network.

The Commission will be officially launched in Parliament in November 2025.

The objective of The Right To Food UK Commission is to shine a light on the unacceptable nature of food insecurity in Britain, map out solutions to endemic food insecurity and apply pressure on the UK Government, devolved administrations and politicians and policy makers in all UK jurisdictions, to tackle and end food insecurity in the UK.

There will be several strands to the Commission’s work, with all sessions designed to examine different dimensions of food insecurity in Britain today and the areas covered by the five demands of the Right To Food campaign.

Specifically, the commission will produce a roadmap for the implementation of a Right to Food law in the UK, the aim of which is to support a programme of work and actions to end hunger in the UK  by 2035, with an interim objective of halving the number of people experiencing food insecurity by 2030.