Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 79889

Deposit Return Schemes

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 17 October 2025

Question

Sir Ashley Fox

ConservativeBridgwater

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with the Welsh government on the interoperability of its deposit return scheme with the schemes in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Northern Ire

Answer

Mary Creagh
I and my officials remain in close working partnership with the Welsh Government as they develop further details of their scheme, with particular consideration of interoperability with DRS in the rest of the UK.