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Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if the Government will act to stop the export of waste electrical and electronic equipment that leaves the UK under the guise of being reusable when it has not been tested to see whether items are safe and fit for purpose.
Kerry McCarthy: ...of the livestock industry. As I said, this was very much a marginal issue, but it is now crossing over and becoming mainstream. One of the key points in that process was when the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation published its report, "Livestock's Long Shadow" in 2006. It looked at a range of issues, including the impact of the livestock industry on land use, soil, water,...
Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress is being made on encouraging the use of anaerobic digestion of waste.
Kerry McCarthy: ...sites of historic importance; and improve the land and environment impacted by extraction. As a result of the Government’s spending review last year, which hit the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs particularly hard, the Department has discontinued that fund. When the previous Conservative Government introduced landfill tax in 1996, they also created the landfill tax...
Kerry McCarthy: Does my hon. Friend agree that supermarkets have a role to play in reducing waste, by reducing food packaging, by not encouraging people to throw away food on unrealistic sell-by dates, and by supporting projects such as FoodCycle, of which I have recently become a patron? That project takes unused food from supermarkets to community cafés and helps to feed people who would be unable to feed...
Kerry McCarthy: ..., because it not only plays host to the largest vegan fayre in Europe each year but has some great restaurants and shops catering for vegans, such as Cafe Kino, Cafe Maitreya, Wild Oats, Better Foods and the Sweetmart. I am pleased to be joined tonight by my vegan comrades, my hon. Friends the Members for Derby North (Chris Williamson) and for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Cathy Jamieson). We...
Kerry McCarthy: ...me in congratulating the Bishop of London on his support for the “Feeding the 5,000” event in Trafalgar square last Friday? That organisation looks at how we can use the phenomenal amount of food that goes to waste in this country to feed people who are in food poverty.
Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the Waste Review, June 2011, what progress she has made towards a new responsibility deal with the hospitality and service sectors to reduce food waste.
Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps she is taking to reduce the level of food wasted by food retailers and manufacturers.
Kerry McCarthy: ...used to earn. They are being hit by cuts to public services, rising fuel bills, rising rents, cuts to housing benefits, cuts to tax credits, and as we have heard today, they are being hit by rising food bills too. All those things add up and have a devastating impact on household finances. Food prices in the UK have been rising at well over twice the rate of the incomes of the poorest....
Kerry McCarthy: To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the answer of 19 July 2010, Official Report, column 51W, on Commons food waste, what estimate the Commission has made of the monetary value of food waste generated by House of Commons food outlets in each month since April 2010; what the outcome was of its review in...
Kerry McCarthy: To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission what steps he is taking to implement the waste hierarchy approach for managing food waste generated by House of Commons food outlets.
Kerry McCarthy: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require large food retailers and large food manufacturers to take steps to reduce food waste and donate surplus food to charities for redistribution and, where food is unfit for human consumption, to make it available for livestock feed in preference over disposal; to encourage and incentivise all other businesses and public bodies...
Robert Halfon: ...used at lunchtime, so one of them could be closed at those times, saving a fair bit of money. Then there are the properties owned by the House of Commons. I am particularly disturbed about the waste of food in this place, which is absolutely obscene. I therefore welcome the ten-minute rule Bill on the subject of food waste that was introduced by the hon. Member for Bristol East (Kerry...
Ian Paisley Jnr: On the hon. Gentleman’s point about discards and conservationists—as a parliamentarian, he will be interested in the nuances of this— the hon. Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy) yesterday introduced a very useful ten-minute rule Bill on food waste. She said that surplus should be donated and redistributed in preference to disposal. We can apply the same food waste policy to fish....
Kerry McCarthy: To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, if he will take steps to ensure that the House of Commons signs up to the Waste and Resources Action Programme's voluntary agreement to reduce food waste.
Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will report on the outcome of the review conducted by her Department on the benefits and risks of using food waste in animal feed.
Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the amount of food waste generated by the Cabinet Office and the Prime Minister’s Office last year; and what steps he is taking to reduce this.
Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 14 May 2012, Official Report, column 23W, on food waste, if he will meet with relevant experts to discuss how to implement a food waste hierarchy in managing nine tonnes of food waste generated by his Department and the Prime Minister's Office.
Kerry McCarthy: When I introduced my Food Waste Bill earlier this year, I thought that I was making good progress in convincing the then Minister in the House of Lords of the need for legislation to protect good-faith donors of food to charities from criminal and civil liability, but I now have the impression that DEFRA is trying to hide behind EU food safety standards. What are Ministers doing to move...