Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 15182
Packaging: Recycling
Tabled: 20 November 2024
Answered: 25 November 2024
Named DayQuestion
Gavin Robinson
Democratic Unionist Party — Belfast East
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to charge Extended Producer Responsibility fees retrospectively for obligated packaging producers.
Answer
Mary CreaghNo. The amounts of the fees are calculated by reference to producers’ activities in the previous year, they are not fees payable in arrears for that previous year.