Question follow-through · 46456
Food: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the (a) value for money and (b) effectiveness of weekly food waste recycling collections by local authorities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the (a) value for money and (b) effectiveness of weekly food waste recycling collections by local authorities.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
A value for money assessment was made in the Simpler Recycling impact assessment available here: The Separation of Waste (England) Regulations 2025, published in December 2024. The effectiveness of weekly food waste recycling collections by local authorit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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