Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 41542

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 26 March 2025
Answered: 1 April 2025

Question

Nick Timothy

ConservativeWest Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of splitting recycling targets for (a) packaging recovery notes and (b) packaging export recovery notes.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra will shortly be engaging with relevant stakeholders to better understand the merits of this and other potential enhancements to the Package Recovery Note system.