Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 49598

Deposit Return Schemes: Rural Areas

Tabled: 30 April 2025

Answered: 9 May 2025

Question

Adam Dance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of supporting the introduction of bottle deposit schemes in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) other rural communities.

Answer

Mary Creagh

The Government has engaged with stakeholders as we developed policy for the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for drink containers, including two public consultations: the first in 2019 and the second in 2021. 83% of the 2,590 responses to the 2021 consultation...

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