Question follow-through · 33530
Food: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has commissioned research into the potential impact of mandatory food waste reporting on (a) access to healthy foods, (b) sustainability targets, (c) expenditure
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has commissioned research into the potential impact of mandatory food waste reporting on (a) access to healthy foods, (b) sustainability targets, (c) expenditure
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
The consultation stage Impact Assessment considered the potential impacts of mandatory food waste reporting on large food businesses. Furthermore, when businesses reduce their food waste, we expect to see progress towards sustainability targets and increa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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