Oral QuestionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

If he will implement a deposit return scheme for bottles.

Tabled: 1 March 2018Answered: 8 March 2018

Asked by

Liz Twist

LabourBlaydon and Consett

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Answer from Hansard

The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (James Murray)

We are determined to go further and faster to reform business rates, which is why we will publish an update paper in the summer. I am also glad that we can work with councils such as Ipswich to ensure that we can turn around town centres after years of Conservative decline.