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346984

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to encourage reductions in food wastage.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	62
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>Through the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), the Government is working with food manufacturers and retailers to meet targets to reduce food waste from households and the grocery supply chain under the Courtauld Commitment. There has been a 15% (1.3 million tonnes) reduction in household food waste since 2007 and signatories reported a reduction of 7.4% in food supply chain waste since 2010. The third phase of the Courtauld Commitment targets a further 1.1 million tonnes of food and packaging waste reduction by the end of this year.</p><p>The Love Food Hate Waste programme helps UK households to reduce food waste and save money through awareness raising and consumer advice. There is also an agreement with the hospitality sector with targets to prevent and manage food waste in restaurants, pubs and canteens.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/06/2015 12:40:49 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

353876

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to tackle food waste in supermarkets.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	2313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>Through the Waste and Resources Action Programme the Government is working with food manufacturers and retailers, including all the major UK supermarkets, to meet targets to reduce food waste from households and the grocery supply chain under the Courtauld Commitment.</p><p>Signatories reported a reduction of 7.4% in food supply chain waste since 2010 (there are also targets on household food waste and packaging waste). The third phase targets a further 1.1 million tonnes of food and packaging waste reduction by the end of 2015.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/06/2015 16:41:37 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

381458

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the amount of food wasted by supermarkets; and if she will take further steps to reduce that amount.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	2624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimates that 0.23 million tonnes of food waste came from the grocery retail industry in 2013. Through WRAP, the Government is working with food manufacturers and retailers, including all the major UK supermarkets, to meet targets to reduce food waste from households and the grocery supply chain under the Courtauld Commitment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All signatories reported a reduction of 7.4% in food supply chain waste between 2010 and 2012 (there were also targets on household food waste and packaging waste). The third phase targets a further 1.1 million tonnes of food and packaging waste reduction by the end of 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/06/2015 10:24:23 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

385839

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how her Department plans to reduce the disposal level of edible food in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	4336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>In accordance with the waste hierarchy, voluntary agreements with business and the Waste and Resources Action Programme’s (WRAP’s) Love Food Hate Waste campaign encourage action by households, food manufacturers, retailers and the hospitality and food service sectors to prevent food waste in the first place.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>If surplus food cannot be prevented, the next best option is to ensure it is redistributed for human consumption. The Courtauld Commitment 3 supply chain target includes action on both prevention and redistribution. This dual target approach encourages redistribution as the most desirable route for any surplus food suitable for human consumption.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra convened a Ministerial round table in July 2012 and requested WRAP to lead an industry working group to follow up on recommendations. As a key output of the group, WRAP published research, guiding principles and good practice case studies to help industry take action. <a href="http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/foodredistribution" target="_blank">http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/foodredistribution</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Building further on this work, Defra convened a round table meeting in January this year with representatives from food retailers, manufacturers, trade associations and the food redistribution sector to discuss how more surplus food can be put to good use. Progress has been good, with an increase of 80% in the food redistributed under Courtauld between 2012 and 2013. To continue this momentum a Courtauld working group has been set up and tasked with looking at further ways to increase the redistribution of surplus food. Further research will look at where and why waste and surpluses occur in the supply chain, which should provide further opportunities to identify and redistribute surplus food.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since there will always be some unavoidable food waste, the Government’s Anaerobic Digestion Strategy is in place to reduce the amount of organic material going to landfill and drive the waste that is produced into energy recovery or recycling.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 02/07/2015 09:15:39 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

386630

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will introduce legislative proposals to prevent supermarkets from throwing away food after it has passed its best-before date.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	4754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government favours a voluntary approach to the prevention of food waste, including the redistribution of surplus food to feed people. A law focused on the redistribution of surplus food from supermarkets would not resolve the barriers to redistribution. Less than 2% of overall food waste is from supermarkets, so our approach is to work with the whole supply chain through the voluntary Courtauld Commitment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Action under the Courtauld Commitment has contributed to a 15% reduction of household food waste between 2007 and 2012 and a reduction of 7.4% in supply chain food waste between 2010 and 2012. The amount of food redistributed in the UK under the Commitment doubled between 2011 and 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 07/07/2015 08:57:51 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

389814

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with her foreign counterparts on strategies to tackle food wastage.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	6933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>We have had no formal discussions on these matters to date, but they are likely to take place later this year when we expect to see the European Commission’s proposals on the EU circular economy, which are likely to contain food waste provisions. Before then, we shall be responding to the European Commission’s consultations on the circular economy, which will influence these proposals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra officials are also engaged in discussions in various international fora e.g. an EU specific technical working group on food losses and waste, and G20 discussions on how to improve food security as well as reduce food losses and waste globally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 21/07/2015 13:04:11 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

424839

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to encourage retailers to reduce the amount of food waste they produce; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	14012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>Through the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), the Government is working with food manufacturers and retailers to meet targets to reduce food and packaging waste from the grocery supply chain under the Courtauld Commitment.</p><br /><p>Signatories reported a reduction of 7.4% in supply chain waste between 2009 and 2012 under Courtauld 2. Interim results for Courtauld 3 show signatories reported a further 3.2% reduction by 2014 against the overall target of a 3% reduction by the end of 2015.</p><br /><p>WRAP is currently brokering a new agreement, Courtauld 2025, which will build on this progress and is expected to start in 2016.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 03/11/2015 12:00:25 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

425688

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2015 to Question 14012, what estimate her Department has made of the amount spent on the Waste and Resources Action Programme in each year since that programme's inception; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	14627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <p>WRAP receives funds from Defra, the Devolved Administrations, the European Union and businesses and from international work.</p><br /><p>WRAP was established in 2000 with £6m of funding from Defra. The table below shows Defra’s funding for WRAP since 2000-01:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p>Annual Defra Funding (£m) per Financial Year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001-02</p></td><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>2008-09</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The reductions in Defra funding since 2010 reflect the need to tackle the deficit alongside a growing awareness from businesses of the opportunities to realise commercial benefits from improved resource efficiency.</p><br /><p>WRAP continues to deliver an ambitious programme highly regarded by the business community, Local Authorities, NGOs and others.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 06/11/2015 10:22:58 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

427609

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with European counterparts on progress they have made in tackling the waste of imperfect food.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	15698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The successful action we have taken in the UK through our voluntary approach has put us at the forefront in tackling food waste. This was reflected in our recent response to the European Commission’s consultations on the Circular Economy.</p><br /><p>Discussions with our European counterparts on these matters will take place following publication of the Commission’s proposals on the Circular Economy.</p><br /> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/11/2015 12:43:11 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

427611

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with supermarkets on reducing the amount of food that is wasted because it is not considered aesthetically appealing to customers.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	15759
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government, through the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), is working with food manufacturers and retailers, including all the major UK supermarkets, to meet targets to reduce food waste from the grocery supply chain under the Courtauld Commitment. Signatories have reported a 7.4% reduction in supply chain waste between 2009-2012, with interim results for Courtauld 3 showing a further 3.2% reduction by 2014.</p><br /><p>WRAP has worked with supermarkets and consumers to support acceptance and use of ‘imperfect’ fruit and vegetables. Work is also in progress with signatories, trade bodies and redistribution organisations to build a better understanding of the amounts and causes of waste in the supply of food &amp; drink. WRAP is currently brokering a new agreement, Courtauld 2025, which will build on this progress.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/11/2015 12:44:39 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn