Question follow-through · 107738
Food: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the supermarket industry on tackling food waste in supermarkets.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 27 Jan 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the supermarket industry on tackling food waste in supermarkets.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jan 2026
Answer published
Defra funds the groundbreaking UK Food and Drink Pact, a voluntary agreement with industry to tackle food waste in supply chains. The Pact has developed the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap, which helps businesses to identify and measure their surplus and was...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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