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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2015 to Question 14616, what estimate her Department has made of the number of signatories to the (a) Cortauld Commitment 3, (b) Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan, (c) Hospitality and Food Service Agreement and (d) Sustainable Clothing Action Plan in each of the last five years.

The number of signatories to the voluntary agreements in the last five years is as follows:

Courtauld Commitment 2/3 (signatories):

• 53 from Aug 2011

ESAP Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan (signatories):

• 50 at launch, Nov 2014;
• 70 at Nov 2015.

Hospitality and Food Service Agreement (signatories plus supporters*):

• 73 at launch in Jun 2012;
• 171 in Nov 13;
• over 200 in Dec 14
• 226 in Nov 2015.

SCAP 2020 Commitment (signatories plus supporters*):

• 22, at launch in Jun 2013;
• 68 at Dec 2014;
• 82 at Nov 2015.

*Supporters also take an active role in promoting activities which support the Commitments