Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 18436

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 13 July 2026

Answered: 21 July 2026

Question

Mr Will Forster

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the financial impact of Extended Producer Responsibility fees on the hospitality sector; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a

Answer

Mary Creagh

The Government published an updated assessment in October 2024 of the impact of introducing packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) on packaging producers as a whole. That assessment did not provide a separate assessment of impacts on the hospit...

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