Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 12438
Packaging: Recycling
Tabled: 4 November 2024
Answered: 11 November 2024
Question
Gareth Snell
Labour (Co-op) — Stoke-on-Trent Central
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of introducing the proposed extended producer responsibility scheme on the cost to consumers of (a) essential foo
Answer
Mary CreaghThe Department’s impact assessment published online here has considered the impacts on grocery and non-grocery retail inflation from the introduction of extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR).