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Jobs and Business (10 May 2013)

Kerry McCarthy: ...household being up to £600 higher than under a low-carbon power system over the next decades”. In the remaining two minutes, I want to flag up what has become a topic of particular interest to me during the past year—food waste. There was an opportunity for the Government to bring forward in this Queen’ Speech measures that would tackle the issue. I was very...

Food Waste (24 April 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Richard Benyon: ...to the debate. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby (Mark Pawsey) on securing it and on his continued work to inform policy makers and the House of important issues to do with food and packaging. He rightly emphasised the importance of the subject, not only from an environmental perspective but in terms of household expenditure. Household bills are squeezed at the moment,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: EU Regulation (7 March 2013)

Kerry McCarthy: When I met the Minister on 10 December last year to discuss my Food Waste Bill, he promised he would give me a copy of the advice his Department had received from the Food Standards Agency about whether the provisions in the Bill to remove civil and criminal liability from good faith donors of food waste would be compatible with EU food safety regulations, as it was suggested by his...

Opposition Day — [17th( )Allotted Day] — Horsemeat (12 February 2013)

Tom Harris: ..., but I am grateful to the Minister of State for that clarification. I know that the Secretary of State has a busy schedule—he told us so. He said that he was meeting again today with the food industry, his second such meeting in four days. I thought that might be the meeting that took him away from the Chamber, and I would have congratulated him, but I realised that today’s...

Food Poverty — [Sir Alan Meale in the Chair] (12 December 2012) See 1 other result from this debate

Kerry McCarthy: I thank my hon. Friend for giving way, because I know she is under time pressure. One initiative, piloted in Bristol, worked with organisations such as FareShare and FoodCycle, to develop a database of exactly where food waste was, so that it could be linked with the outlets and donated to people in need. It was initiated after a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs summit. The...

Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords] (19 November 2012) See 1 other result from this debate

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...Association, the National Farmers Union, NFU Scotland, the Farmers Union of Wales, the Ulster Farmers Union, the Association of Convenience Stores—the voice of local shops—Fair Deal Food, Action Aid, Banana Link, CAFOD—the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development—the Campaign to Protect Rural England, the Church of England and the Women’s Institute. For...

[Mr Christopher Chope in the Chair] — Common Agricultural Policy (1 November 2012)

Kerry McCarthy: ...criticism outlined in the report about the proposed percentage of a holding that would be included in EFAs, with concern that that would mark a return to set-aside and severely limit increases in food production and competitiveness. However, as many environmental organisations have pointed out, because that could include a wide range of landscape features and low-grade agricultural land,...

Business of the House: Badger Cull (25 October 2012)

Kerry McCarthy: That device is completely unhelpful. I have taken an interest in food policy in my time in Parliament—I introduced a Food Waste Bill. Food policy is about farming only to an extent, but people eat food, including in urban areas. Food policy is also about food distribution networks and supermarkets. It is completely ludicrous to portray the issue as one that is just for farmers.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (25 October 2012)

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...

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Food Waste (11 June 2012)

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.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Animal Feed (14 May 2012)

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.

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Food Waste (14 May 2012)

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.

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Food: Waste (21 March 2012)

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.

Backbench Business: Common Fisheries Policy (15 March 2012)

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...

Backbench Business: Charging for Access to Parliament (15 March 2012)

Robert Halfon: ...are barely 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...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Food Waste (14 March 2012)

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...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Food: Waste Disposal (21 February 2012)

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.

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Food: Waste (24 January 2012)

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...

Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]: Food Prices and Food Poverty (23 January 2012)

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....

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Food Waste (19 January 2012)

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.