Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 77343

Plastics: Infrastructure

Tabled: 15 September 2025
Answered: 16 October 2025

Question

Tom Hayes

LabourBournemouth East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding her Department plans to provide for plastic reprocessing infrastructure in each of the next three years; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra currently has no plans to fund plastics reprocessing infrastructure. There are existing mechanisms including the market-based Packaging Waste Recycling Notes (PRN) system to provide direct funding to the reprocessing sector. This year sees the start...

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