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989455

registered interest
date	17/10/2018
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 Disposal
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 11 July 2018 to Question 161049 on Waste Management, when the Resources and Waste Strategy will be published.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	180850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>We will publish the Resources and Waste Strategy by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 24/10/2018 13:13:29 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

945606

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
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 Disposal
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to establish separate mandatory food waste collections in England by 2025 as recommended by the National Infrastructure Commission in its National Infrastructure Assessment 2018, published in July; and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
uin	HL9735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2018 answer text <p>The UK government has committed to work towards no food waste being sent to landfill by 2030 in its Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017. 113 local authorities out of 326 in England currently offer a separate food waste collection service and we encourage all local authorities to consider introducing separate food waste collection when opportunities arise to include these in collection contracts.</p><p> </p><p>In the 25 Year Environment Plan, we committed to working to support an increase in the number of councils with separate food waste collections. We will outline our plans for this in our Resources and Waste Strategy, which will be published this autumn. This will include how we will fulfil our commitments to the circular economy package where bio-waste including food waste recycling must be offered for households.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the energy generation potential of food waste, when collected separately and sent to anaerobic digestion (AD), though we need to be conscious of some of the unintended consequences for air pollution that can arise.</p><p> </p><p>We will consider the recommendations of the 2018 National Infrastructure Assessment in the development of the Resources and Waste Strategy.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL9738 HL9739 HL9740 question first answered 01/08/2018 12:23:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

945610

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
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 Disposal
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the figure provided in the National Infrastructure Commission's National Infrastructure Assessment 2018, published in July, that introducing mandatory separate food waste collections in England by 2025 would save (1) up to £400 million in capital costs, and (2) £1.1 billion in operational costs for local authorities in total between 2020 and 2050, including the cost of weekly collections.
tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
uin	HL9739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2018 answer text <p>The UK government has committed to work towards no food waste being sent to landfill by 2030 in its Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017. 113 local authorities out of 326 in England currently offer a separate food waste collection service and we encourage all local authorities to consider introducing separate food waste collection when opportunities arise to include these in collection contracts.</p><p> </p><p>In the 25 Year Environment Plan, we committed to working to support an increase in the number of councils with separate food waste collections. We will outline our plans for this in our Resources and Waste Strategy, which will be published this autumn. This will include how we will fulfil our commitments to the circular economy package where bio-waste including food waste recycling must be offered for households.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the energy generation potential of food waste, when collected separately and sent to anaerobic digestion (AD), though we need to be conscious of some of the unintended consequences for air pollution that can arise.</p><p> </p><p>We will consider the recommendations of the 2018 National Infrastructure Assessment in the development of the Resources and Waste Strategy.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL9735 HL9738 HL9740 question first answered 01/08/2018 12:23:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

945611

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
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 Disposal
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage local authorities who have waste contracts to renew in the next three years to introduce mandatory separate food waste collections following the recommendations of the National Infrastructure Commission's National Infrastructure Assessment 2018, published in July.
tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
uin	HL9740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2018 answer text <p>The UK government has committed to work towards no food waste being sent to landfill by 2030 in its Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017. 113 local authorities out of 326 in England currently offer a separate food waste collection service and we encourage all local authorities to consider introducing separate food waste collection when opportunities arise to include these in collection contracts.</p><p> </p><p>In the 25 Year Environment Plan, we committed to working to support an increase in the number of councils with separate food waste collections. We will outline our plans for this in our Resources and Waste Strategy, which will be published this autumn. This will include how we will fulfil our commitments to the circular economy package where bio-waste including food waste recycling must be offered for households.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the energy generation potential of food waste, when collected separately and sent to anaerobic digestion (AD), though we need to be conscious of some of the unintended consequences for air pollution that can arise.</p><p> </p><p>We will consider the recommendations of the 2018 National Infrastructure Assessment in the development of the Resources and Waste Strategy.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL9735 HL9738 HL9739 question first answered 01/08/2018 12:23:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

935059

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
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 Disposal
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 he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on potential funding for separate food waste collections in England.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	161049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>Through its Clean Growth Strategy, the Government said it would work towards no food waste entering landfill by 2030.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra Ministers and officials have regular discussions with other government departments and ministers, including HM Treasury, on actions that will help to support local authorities to collect more food waste so that the amount sent to landfill continues to decline.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our Resources and Waste Strategy, which we will publish later this year, will outline our plans for food waste.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 161046 question first answered 11/07/2018 14:47:04 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

828249

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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 Disposal
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 his Department has made of the amount of food waste which went into landfill (a) nationally and (b) in Cornwall in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	124209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>The latest available estimates from the Waste and Resources Action Programme are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Estimates_%20in_the_UK_Jan17.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Estimates_%20in_the_UK_Jan17.pdf</a></p><p>These estimates are not broken down further by region.</p><p> </p><p>Other information through permit data for waste sent to landfill would not provide a robust estimate since much of the food waste would be recorded as part of mixed municipal waste rather than just for food waste.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 26/01/2018 15:45:03 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

809749

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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 Disposal
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 plans the Government has to promote the usage of brown food waste bins.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	120369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/12/2017 answer text <p>The provision of food waste collections has increased, with 50% of local authorities in England providing a dedicated food waste collection in 2016/17, either separate or mixed with garden waste, an increase from 27% in 2009. Separate food waste collected for recycling increased by 15% in 2016 to 353,000 tonnes from 307,000 tonnes in 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has carried out pilot projects to help local authorities increase the amount of food waste collected. Alongside industry, WRAP has also published a Food Waste Recycling Action Plan which sets out sixteen actions to increase food waste collection.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 28/12/2017 22:02:19 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

794029

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
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 Disposal
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 assessment he has made of the effect of introducing separate food waste collections on the quantity of food waste produced by households.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	115117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>Defra has not made an assessment on the effect introducing separate food waste collections would have on the quantity of food waste produced by households.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Decisions on collection arrangements are for local councils to make, taking into account local circumstances.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 04/12/2017 18:05:02 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

760818

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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 Disposal
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 his Department will undertake a cost-benefit analysis of the introduction of mandatory separate food waste collections in England, including the effect on (a) local government and (b) landfill tax receipts; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	105402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>Defra is undertaking a cost benefit analysis of the introduction of separate food waste collections that will assess the impact on local government and landfill tax.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 12/10/2017 11:34:06 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

760871

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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 Disposal
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 assessment his Department has made of introducing mandatory separate food waste collections in England on carbon reduction potential.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	105344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>This Department has recently begun work to assess what the carbon reduction potential is for introducing separate food waste collections in England, but the analysis is not yet complete.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 09/10/2017 10:57:34 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy