Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 83258

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 20 October 2025
Answered: 27 October 2025

Question

Sammy Wilson

Democratic Unionist PartyEast Antrim

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has he made of the potential impact of his Department's weight-based approach to the Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme on levels of food inflation.

Answer

Mary Creagh
In autumn last year my department published an assessment of the impacts of implementing extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR), including on inflation, when the regulations were laid in parliament. However, this impact assessment does not ...

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