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Food: Waste

Commons · Question 11830 · Tabled 30 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 4 Nov 2024

Question

Asked by Gregory Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of whether the UK meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 target.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 4 Nov 2024

The Department has made no recent assessment of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 target of a 50% reduction of food waste by 2030. Latest data from the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) showed that between 2007, the baseline used for repo...