Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 15182

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 20 November 2024
Answered: 25 November 2024
Named Day

Question

Gavin Robinson

Democratic Unionist PartyBelfast 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 Creagh
No. 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.