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US versus UK HAPPY BIRTHDAY CERTIFIED FOR LEss CORP COLLABORATION Who is winning the Responsibility Deal is New MSC scheme helps McD’s and KFC hook up obesity battle? three years old smaller firms on food waste FOOTPRSUSTAINABLE RESPONSIBLE BUSINEss www.foodservicefootprint.com NTMARCH 2014 £4.50 The detail is in the data DEFRA sneaks out its update on government buying standards CONTENTS COMMENT News 4 Analysis: 82% of food procured by Quality of life services government now meets GBS 7 Review: A refresh is in store for the ISO 14001 standard 8 Waste Watch: (Waste) battle of the sexes Driven to drink 9 Political print: Sugar revelations leave sour taste for UK food industry Comment 11 My Viewpoint: Is the US tackling obesity faster than the UK? David Burrows Features Editor-in-chief 12 Feature: Three years old, but is the Responsibility Deal working? 14 Health & Vitality: Footprint Honours UST BEFORE Christmas Julie Wilson where the lines of responsibility are drawn. showcase the very best practice opened the 900th JD Wetherspoon pub John Torode (page 9) believes the nation’s 16 Contract Catering: The caterers and – the Poulton Elk in Poulton-le-Fylde, poor health is (in no small part) down to clients cosying up to save energy J Lancashire. It didn’t get much press. That the nation. Not the chefs, the marketers or 19 Pubs & Bars: Why responsible was reserved for the Hope and Champion, the supermarkets. I can see his point but businesses should offer smaller wine glasses managed by Steve Baldwin 224 miles away industry – foodservice, food manufacture in Beaconsfield, a month later. Julie’s might and food retail – have a responsibility too. 21 Supply Chain: Chip shops club together to save on sustainable fish have been the numerical milestone, but Are they living up to it? Three years into the 22 Grocery: New stretching sustainability Steve’s marked the social one. Steve’s pub is Public Health Responsibility Deal and the targets set for supermarkets on the M40. jury is still out (page 12). 24 Energy & Equipment: Getting the most Service stations are an arm of foodservice Responding to the Hope and Champion’s from unavoidable food waste that continually frustrate me. It’s not the opening, the RAC pointed to a survey of 26 Green Scene: Is the UK losing out when overpriced fuel. No, it’s the food: if you have 2,000 people that found 12% supported it comes to GM? times to keep you are shackled by these putting pubs into motorway service stations. branded beasts of bad, beige food. So I’m I wonder how many would support putting CONTACTS all for a little innovation by the roadside; better food into them? Editor-in-chief: perhaps Steve and Wetherspoons can There’s a captive market of road users to David Burrows - [email protected] Chief subeditor: deliver that? educate, entertain and excite with UK food. James Eagle However, campaigners suggest the £1.2m Why not make it organic, or sustainable, Contributors: Martin Caraher, Richard Burrell, Martin Baxter, site is “deeply concerning” and will deliver or healthy – or all three? We’ve seen that Greg Silverman News: one thing: drink-drivers. people will pay for bad food, so why not David Burrows - [email protected] Niki Goddard - [email protected] It comes down to responsibility – a theme for good food? 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Call us now on 020 7404 0110 or visit us online at www.sodexo.com www.greenten.co.uk FOOTPRINT | MARCH 2014 3 2274_Footprintmedia_ad.indd 1 18/03/2013 11:05 FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS Departmental key BIS – Business, Industry and Skills CO – Cabinet Office Fifty shades DCLG – Communities & Local Government DECC – Energy & Climate Change DEFRA – Environment, Food & Rural Affairs DfE – Education of green DfID – International Development DfT – Transport DH – Health DWP – Work & Pensions The latest update on the ‘greening government’ UKEF – Export Finance FCO – Foreign and Commonwealth targets shows Whitehall doing well overall FSA – Food Standards Agency HMRC – Revenue & Customs but with big differences between ministries’ HO – Home Office LOD – Law Officers performance. David Burrows reports. MoD – Defence MoJ – Justice ONS – National Statistics HE GUARDIAN website has a rather GBS) and yet none of the food it buys met nice “green-o-meter” tracking the the standards. Where does this leave the Tgovernment’s progress against caterers that supply schools and which have its greenest government ever claims. In been encouraged to follow GBS voluntarily November 2013, the latest entry, the scale within ever-tightening budgets? Should they had hit rock bottom (“greenest never”) Greenest be following the MoJ’s lead rather than their following the prime minister’s reported wish own central department? to cut the “green crap”. At the turn of the A spokeswoman for the MoJ said year it might have crept up a little, with the its procurement strategy was, like all publication of the “Greening Government departments, based on “value for money Commitments” report for 2012-13 – had the ever? for the taxpayer. But we also want to make report been publicised. Is the government meeting its food buying standards? sure that what we deliver is sustainable.” The 60-page update on how the coalition That’s what GBS, launched in September is faring on issues such as reducing waste, 2011, set out to do. “This is the delivery of a cutting emissions and flying less has been government promise to ensure that we do ting eeti tucked away on the DEFRA website. The ee G m n not use taxpayers’ money to undermine our t g m B lead ministers, Norman Baker (Home Office o G own farmers’ high standards of production. S n B % S minister) and Oliver Letwin (government % By doing so, we’re practising what we preach policy minister), point to “rapid progress and challenging the rest of the public sector on waste and water targets” with cuts of to follow,” said the then farm minister, Jim 15% and 19% respectively. Emissions also (GBS) for some demonstrating Paice, at the time. continue their downward trajectory with a years now, but the diversity of 14% cut since 2009-10. In 2011-12 it was this is the first time commitment. “DEFRA, the lead department for the already at 12% so there’s a long way to go to detailed data has Of the big buyers, standards, does well; likewise the Ministry of meet the 25% target by the next election. been published. DEFRA, the lead Defence. But look beyond those and the results Of the £142.5m spent, department for the become more disappointing” “This masks a wild variation in inter- almost £117m met GBS standards, did well (though departmental performance, and nowhere more (about 82%). This doesn’t declined to comment on how); Much like the prime minister, the claims so than in procurement of food and catering include the Department of Culture, likewise the Ministry of Defence. were bold, but action and enforcement services” Media and Sport or the Treasury, But look beyond those and the results have arguably been meek, even in the face What is clear from the report is that the which didn’t supply data (though the latter are more disappointing. The Department of what campaigners see as watered-down government estate is – slightly – greener than claims its facilities management company of Health met GBS for just 44% of its GBS.