Member

The noble Lord asked how businesses can plan without more certainty. The publication of the illustrative base fees will provide clarity for industry as it prepares for the introduction of pEPR. We believe this will allow businesses to plan for scenarios within the published fee range estimates. The Government released a second iteration of illustrative pEPR-based fees on 30 September. That was calculated using an updated methodology based on producer-reported tonnages from 2023, alongside Defra-modelled local authority costs. This is the same underlying approach that the scheme administrator intends to use for the final fees from 2025.