Foreign And Commonwealth Office: Beverage Containers

Foreign and Commonwealth Office written question – answered at on 29 January 2018.

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Photo of Mary Creagh Mary Creagh Chair, Environmental Audit Committee, Chair, Environmental Audit Committee

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.

Photo of Alan Duncan Alan Duncan Minister of State

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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