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 Creagh
The 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).