The National Good Food Nation Plan - Updated EQIA

Executive summary

This EQIA covers the first iteration of the national Good Food Nation Plan (“the national Plan”). The national Plan introduces six new overarching Outcomes which indicate key areas of focus that enable us to further develop our status as a Good Food Nation. Other than these Outcomes, the national Plan is primarily a collection of existing policies, indicators and targets that relate to food. The national Plan brings these together in one place for the first time to facilitate a joined up and coherent approach to food policy, but the policies themselves are not new.

We expect that in making progress towards achieving the Outcomes the overall impact across equality groups will be positive or neutral. It should, however, be noted that any new policies developed while having regard to the national Plan will be subject to their own impact assessments.

This is an update to a previously published version of the EQIA. We have incorporated more research into this version, primarily based around lived experience insights from publications and engagement previously carried out. We intend to build on our evidence base over the next years and will update the EQIA at the appropriate review points.