Oral Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
“What steps her Department is taking to help reduce levels of food waste.”
Tabled: 5 November 2025Answered: 13 November 2025
Asked by
Dame Meg Hillier
Labour (Co-op) — Hackney South and Shoreditch
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Mary Creagh)
We are committed to tackling food waste and ensuring that food reaches those in greatest need. We have a new £15 million fund redistributing 19,000 tonnes of surplus food, and our simpler recycling reforms, which will come in from next March, will cut the amount of food waste sent to landfill. We hope that behaviour-change initiatives will also tackle food waste in the home.