Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 78073

Deposit Return Schemes: VAT

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 17 October 2025

Question

Sammy Wilson

Democratic Unionist PartyEast Antrim

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the application of VAT to unredeemed deposits within the Deposit Return Scheme on (a) inflation and (b) consume

Answer

Mary Creagh
HM Treasury, as the lead department, and HM Revenue & Customs are continuing to consider the best way of accounting for VAT on DRS deposits and will set out further detail in due course. The Government is committed to ensuring that the DRS operate eff...

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