At the beginning of October, I published a petition to ask UK MPs to respond to FareShare, Foodbank and the Trussell Trust within Parliament that was here. Since then there have been a few comments in UK Parliament for Foodbank and more Trussell Trust and they were also for Welsh, Scotland and Northern Ireland Parliament groups.

It is clearly vital for the new Government to promote FareShare, but so far, they have not done so. The only mentions have occurred since then were two comments on 15th October, provided by the Welsh Parliament in the Senedd group.

Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan a Labour MS who on spoke on ‘Reducing Food Waste’ session:

“When it comes to the industry, FareShare Cymru, who you’ll be aware of, takes surplus food from the food and drink industry and redistributes it to organisations in Wales that feed people in need….That’s why we have this FareShare Cymru project. They administer the Surplus with Purpose Cymru fund. That aims to overcome the barriers that Welsh food and drink businesses face when they’re thinking about redistributing that food surplus, so that at least the surplus then can go to somewhere that needs it, rather than become waste. I’ll give you an example of that in Haverfordwest: Puffin Produce. They’ve been donating their surplus food to FareShare Cymru since 2020.”

Also, Huw Irranca-Davies a Labour MS who spoke at another session with:

“We have also expanded FareShare Cymru, which redistributes surplus edible food from businesses.”

So far there have not been any references to FareShare on the UK Parliament since last April and we need MPs to speak as soon as possible. I initially checked this item on the beginning of December and sadly even now at the beginning of early February there are still no comments from any MPs.