Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 18725

Plastics: Waste

Tabled: 9 December 2024
Answered: 12 December 2024
Named Day

Question

Joe Morris

LabourHexham

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of restrictions on the use of single-use plastic.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra officials are in the process of conducting a Post Implementation Review of the Environmental Regulations 2020, which includes the bans and restrictions on plastic straws, stirrers, and plastic-stemmed cotton buds. This is due to be published in Octo...

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