Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 15866

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 3 July 2026
Answered: 13 July 2026
Named Day

Question

Leigh Ingham

LabourStafford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Extended Producer Responsibility packaging fees on home improvement manufacturers who sell through builders' merchants and canno

Answer

Mary Creagh
The Government published an updated assessment in October 2024 of the impact of introducing Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging. This assessed packaging producers as a whole but did not assess individual sectors or routes to market, such as hom...

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