UK – Department for Environment Food and Rual Affairs (DEFRA) parliament secretary Sir Brian Bender said this week that the UK dairy market suffers from a lack of innovation.

Speaking at the Dairy Industry Association Limited’s (DIAL) annual lunch, Sir Bender said that there is more product innovation in the European dairy market. He backed this up by saying that a KPMG on the industry earlier this year came to a similar conclusion.

Commenting on the issue of mergers and acquisitions, Sir Bender said that the government was not looking to stop companies trying to increase market share: “The government has no particular view on