PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Waste (10 March 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons waste reduction, improved resource efficiency and increasing recycling rates were not included in her Department's Single Department Plan: 2015 to 2020, published on 19 January 2016.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

Waste and resource management are important priorities for the Government. That is why reducing waste is one of the key aims in our departmental strategy that was published last month. Furthermore, our 25 Year Environment Plan will consider waste and resource management alongside other issues.

Answered by:
Rory Stewart (Independent)
15 March 2016