Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 90206

Recycling

Tabled: 12 November 2025
Answered: 20 November 2025

Question

Wendy Morton

Conservative — Aldridge-Brownhills

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme is measured by weight.

Answer

Mary Creagh
In autumn last year my department published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) scheme on packaging producers as a whole, when the regulations were laid in parliament. This does not ...
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