Amazon: Consumer Goods

(asked on 16th July 2021) - View Source

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 Answers of 6 July 2021 to Question 23303 and 2 July 2021 to Question 21310, on what date Ministers met with Amazon to discuss measures to stop Amazon destroying usable stock; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 26th July 2021

The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy raised the media reports of stock destruction during a call with Amazon on 24 June during which Amazon outlined their seven-point plan for dealing with unsold goods to ensure they are not sent to landfill.

Our position on this important issue was set out in our previous responses. We have nothing further to add at this stage.

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