Question follow-through · 19827
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether his Department monitors the amount of food waste generated by its offices each month.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether his Department monitors the amount of food waste generated by its offices each month.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Department receives quarterly waste data from the Government Property Agency, including information on waste sent for anaerobic digestion. Not all office locations have the infrastructure to separately measure food waste, and the Department does not r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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