Foreign and Commonwealth Office written question – answered at on 29 January 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many disposable coffee cups were purchased by his Department in each of the last five years.
The below table highlights the available information held on the number of disposable cups purchased in the UK by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in each of the last five years. The figures are based on cups purchased centrally by our catering supplier. They do not include individual ad hoc purchases of cups by teams within the office or purchases by our overseas missions.
Hot beverage cups | ||
2013 | Data not available | |
2014 | Data not available | |
2015 | Data not available | |
2016 | 654,156 | |
2017 | 655,718 |
Since May 2017, the FCO have provided disposable cup recycling bins and offered discounts on hot drinks purchased in reusable cups in its food and drink outlets to minimise disposable cup waste and support the recycling of disposable cups.
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