Question follow-through · 19093

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support waste collection authorities to deliver mandatory household food waste collections from 2026-27.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
16 Dec 2024
Answer
16 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support waste collection authorities to deliver mandatory household food waste collections from 2026-27.

  2. 16 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 16 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    To support waste collection authorities to deliver household food waste collections, we provided capital transitional funding in February 2024 to cover reasonable costs of purchasing trucks and bins needed to deliver weekly food waste collections from 31 ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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