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Karl McCartney
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(10 years, 11 months ago)
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Mr Paterson
I am grateful to the hon. Lady. We look at various regulations the whole time. We are studying that matter and we will make announcements in due course.
Karl MᶜCartney (Lincoln) (Con)
T4. My right hon. Friend is no doubt aware that Lincolnshire produces a quarter of the nation’s food and does quite well in recycling waste, but with 15 million tonnes of food across the country going to waste annually, what steps is his Department taking to encourage the uptake of anaerobic digestion?
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Dan Rogerson)
Government financial support and action under our anaerobic digestion strategy and action plan is leading to growing uptake of AD. Since the strategy was published the number of plants has increased from 54 to more than 120 and a further 200 projects have planning permission.