Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 97410

Packaging: Waste Disposal

Tabled: 4 December 2025
Answered: 16 December 2025

Question

Mr Joshua Reynolds

Liberal DemocratMaidenhead

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has been made of the adequacy of funding mechanisms under the Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging scheme to enable local authorities and other land managers

Answer

Mary Creagh
In autumn last year, Defra published the final impact assessment for the packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) regulations when they were laid in Parliament. Payments for litter cleanup are outside the scope of the regulations and therefore th...

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