Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 65700

Deposit Return Schemes

Tabled: 8 July 2025
Answered: 15 July 2025

Question

Dan Norris

IndependentNorth East Somerset and Hanham

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the introduction of the Deposit Return Scheme on (a) job creation and (b) other economic developments.

Answer

Mary Creagh
The Final Impact Assessment, published in November 2025, considers the impacts of a DRS on all sectors of society - this includes costs and benefits, and any wider impacts identified. There are external studies that look at the number of jobs created by D...

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