Food: Waste

Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 5 December 2013.

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Photo of Kerry McCarthy Kerry McCarthy Shadow Minister (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress his Department has made towards achieving the EU target of reducing food waste by 50 per cent by 2025.

Photo of Dan Rogerson Dan Rogerson The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

There is no formally agreed target within the EU to reduce food waste. However, in the UK we reduced total household food waste by 15% between 2007 and 2012. This has been achieved despite an increase of 4% in the number of UK households.

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