PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Food: Waste Disposal (14 September 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government has considered including in its Clean Growth Plan the provision of funding for local authorities to introduce separate food waste collections.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

The Government’s Clean Growth Strategy will be published shortly. This will set out our proposals for decarbonising the UK economy through the 2020s.

We have already made good progress on food waste collection, with 52% of local authorities in England providing food waste collections in 2015/16, either separate or mixed with garden waste. This is an increase from 27% in 2009. The Waste & Resources Action Program (WRAP) has published guidance on increasing capture for food waste collection services and we encourage local authorities to take this into account when making decisions on services.

Answered by:
Claire Perry (Conservative)
9 October 2017