Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 72246

Litter: Fast Food

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 3 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Samantha Niblett

LabourSouth Derbyshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring all packaging from fast food outlets is marked by the outlet with the car registration of the customer

Answer

Mary Creagh
This Government has not made an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring all packaging from fast food outlets is marked by the outlet with the car registration of the customer or the use of ANPR to trace back littering to the perpetrator.