Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 74912

Disposable Wipes: Plastics

Tabled: 3 September 2025
Answered: 9 September 2025

Question

Amanda Hack

LabourNorth West Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for banning wet wipes containing plastic.

Answer

Emma Hardy
We are working together with the devolved Governments to ban wet wipes containing plastic across the UK. For England, we will legislate in Autumn this year.