Question follow-through · 9900
Food: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will have discussions with major (a) supermarkets and (b) food retailers on reducing food waste.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will have discussions with major (a) supermarkets and (b) food retailers on reducing food waste.
22 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2024
Answer published
Defra engages with retailers on a regular basis as part of ongoing efforts to ensure alignment on key policies. This includes regular bilateral conversations with individual organisations and forums that include all the major supermarkets. Agendas are adj...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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