Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 45789

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 17 April 2025
Answered: 30 April 2025

Question

Tonia Antoniazzi

LabourGower

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the classification by the Office for Budget Responsibility of the extended producer responsibility schem

Answer

Mary Creagh
Whilst pEPR was announced a few years ago, Defra has now built a modelling framework to calculate local authority costs and producer fees that was used for the first time by the OBR to include pEPR in their forecast. Pending a decision by the ONS, the OBR...

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