Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 104520

Deposit Return Schemes: Wales

Tabled: 9 January 2026

Answered: 16 January 2026

Question

Carolyn Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact the Welsh Government’s proposed UK Internal Market Act exemption to run its own Deposit Return Scheme would have on (a) existing and (b) future UK tr

Answer

Chris Bryant

We have not made such specific assessments, however we are keen to progress a UK Deposit Return Scheme and are currently evaluating the Welsh Government's proposal for an exclusion from the UK Internal Market Act as set out in the UK Internal Market Act R...

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