Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 83259
Plastics: Recycling
Tabled: 20 October 2025
Answered: 27 October 2025
Question
Sammy Wilson
Democratic Unionist Party — East Antrim
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the weight-based Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme on the use of plastic containers.
Answer
Mary CreaghIn autumn last year my department published an assessment of the impacts of implementing extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR), including on inflation, when the regulations were laid in parliament. However, this impact assessment does not ...
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