Question follow-through · 23898
Food: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for introducing mandatory food waste reporting.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for introducing mandatory food waste reporting.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2025
Answer published
In our manifesto, the Government committed to reducing waste by moving to a circular economy. The Secretary of State has convened a Small Ministerial Group on Circular Economy and a Circular Economy Taskforce of experts across government, industry, academ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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