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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of food waste which went into landfill (a) nationally and (b) in Cornwall in each of the last three years.

The latest available estimates from the Waste and Resources Action Programme are available at the following link:

http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Estimates_%20in_the_UK_Jan17.pdf

These estimates are not broken down further by region.

Other information through permit data for waste sent to landfill would not provide a robust estimate since much of the food waste would be recorded as part of mixed municipal waste rather than just for food waste.