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Written Question
Food: Waste
Friday 8th March 2024

Asked by: Jo Gideon (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to estimate the potential (a) costs and (b) profits on large businesses of proposals to introduce mandatory food waste reporting.

Answered by Robbie Moore - Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

We are gathering further evidence using the latest available data in order to retake the decision later this year.

Written Question
Food: Waste
Tuesday 20th February 2024

Asked by: Jo Gideon (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's expected timeline is to introduce mandatory food waste reporting for large businesses.

Answered by Robbie Moore - Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Secretary of State decided in November 2023 to look again at how best to secure the benefits of food waste reporting for large businesses. We now intend to gather further evidence and re-consider all options in the 2022 consultation, including mandatory reporting, using the latest available data. We expect to make the decision later this year.

Written Question
Fertilisers
Monday 4th September 2023

Asked by: Jo Gideon (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many meetings parties to the Fertilisers common framework have had since the publication in February 2022 of her Department's command paper Fertilisers common framework, CP 595; and when they plan to consult on revised fertilising products regulation.

Answered by Mark Spencer

Parties to the Fertilisers provisional common framework have met monthly since its publication. Officials from Defra, DAERA and the Scottish and Welsh Governments attend these meetings.

A consultation and call for evidence on the revising of fertilising product regulations is planned for autumn 2023.

Written Question
Salt and Sugar: Taxation
Tuesday 25th April 2023

Asked by: Jo Gideon (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the National Food Strategy, published in July 2021, whether she is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to implement (a) the first recommendation on introducing a sugar and salt reformulation tax and (b) other recommendations from that report.

Answered by Mark Spencer

The Government does not consider that now is the right time to introduce new taxes that will push up the cost of food.

The affordability of food, and individuals’ access to food, is a key element of the Government’s approach to tackling poverty as we manage the impact of cost-of-living pressures.

In 2022 the Government published its Food Strategy, which considered and responded to Henry Dimbleby’s independent review.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 31 Oct 2022
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill

"It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon). I think we have had a very thoughtful and good-humoured discussion. It is clear that animal welfare is a key feature for both sides of this House. I just want to mention amendment 7, with which …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Oct 2022
National Food Strategy and Food Security

"It is a particular pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy), with whom I sat on the all-party parliamentary group on the national food strategy, which has been disbanded. She covered a comprehensive range of issues that needed to be spoken about, so I will try …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Oct 2022
National Food Strategy and Food Security

"Does the hon. Gentleman agree that consumers also need to be re-educated on the fact that strawberries do not grow for 12 months of the year, for example, and supermarkets will inevitably have different offers of our own produce at different times of the year?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Support for Local Food Infrastructure

"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) on securing the debate and on his excellent speech. Like me, he has long championed the vital role of food in every aspect of our health, from the health of our children and communities to the health of our …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Jun 2022
Government Food Strategy

"Given the recommendations of the independent review, the White Paper is not bold enough, but I am pleased that the junk food cycle is being addressed with a goal on healthy ingredients sold and reporting with the Office for Environmental Protection, Food Standards Agency and Climate Change Committee. I am …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Cost of Living and Food Insecurity

"I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate following the launch of the levelling up White Paper last week, which provides a framework for delivering the Government’s vision and plan to help everyone in Britain get back on their feet after the devastation caused by the pandemic. We have …..."
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