Cost of Living: Food Waste

Lord Kamall Excerpts

Thursday 21st September 2023 Lords Chamber

[Lord Harlech (Con)]

My Lords, I sense we are going over the same ground a bit here, and I can only reiterate what I have said already. It makes good sense for businesses to reduce their food waste. However, the overwhelming amount of food waste in this country, 70%, comes from individual households. Therefore, it is about education and helping individual households and consumers to buy what they need, use what they buy and waste as little as possible.

[Lord Kamall (Con)]

My Lords, if companies are saying that they believe that monitoring food waste is a good thing and they are making money from reducing food waste, why not just have a levy on companies to pay for that monitoring so we can all be happy?

[Lord Harlech (Con)]

Levying sounds like something for the Treasury to think about.