Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 13524

Disposable Wipes: Plastics

Tabled: 11 November 2024
Answered: 19 November 2024

Question

Marie Goldman

Liberal DemocratChelmsford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's timetable is for (a) introducing and (b) implementing a ban on wet wipes that contain plastic.

Answer

Emma Hardy
The Government is working together with the devolved Governments to understand the issue, with a view to legislate to ban wet wipes containing plastic across the UK.