Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rory Stewart Excerpts

Monday 15th June 2015 Ministerial Corrections

The following is an extract from the speech made by the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the Westminster Hall debate on food waste on 11 June 2015:

[Rory Stewart]

Food to the value of £108 billion and the one in eight jobs connected to food and farming in the UK are connected to what every hon. Member in this Chamber deeply believes in, whether it be poverty alleviation, mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys; the legislative programmes advocated by the hon. Member for Bristol East; the important arguments on the environment and resource depletion advanced by the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion; or the civil society examples from Zero Waste Scotland produced by the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West.

[Official Report, 11 June 2015, Vol. 596, c. 204WH.]

Letter from Rory Stewart:

An error has been identified in the speech I made in the Westminster Hall debate on food waste.

The correct response should have been:

[Rory Stewart]

Food to the value of £103 billion and the one in eight jobs connected to food and farming in the UK are connected to what every hon. Member in this Chamber deeply believes in, whether it be poverty alleviation, mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys; the legislative programmes advocated by the hon. Member for Bristol East; the important arguments on the environment and resource depletion advanced by the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion; or the civil society examples from Zero Waste Scotland produced by the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West.