Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 19106

Disposable Wipes: Plastics

Tabled: 10 December 2024
Answered: 17 December 2024

Question

Steve Darling

Liberal DemocratTorbay

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce legislative proposals to ban wet wipes containing 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.