Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 15589
Packaging: Recycling
Tabled: 2 July 2026
Answered: 9 July 2026
Question
Peter Fortune
Conservative — Bromley and Biggin Hill
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the inflationary impact of the packaging Extended Producer Responsibility scheme on products such as bottles of beer.
Answer
Mary CreaghThe Government published an updated assessment in October 2024 of the impact of introducing Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging. This assessed impacts on packaging producers as a whole but did not assess impacts on individual products such as b...
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