Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 15590

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 2 July 2026
Answered: 9 July 2026

Question

Peter Fortune

ConservativeBromley and Biggin Hill

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the cumulative cost of the Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme on the brewing sector.

Answer

Mary Creagh
The 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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