To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much funding his Department provided for research into food packaging methods in each of the last five years. (257431)

DEFRA has provided no direct funding for such research but does provide funding to the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).

WRAP has provided a total of £3,542,000 to fund research into food packaging methods in each of the last five years. This is broken down by year in the following table.