Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 88258
Recycling: Inflation
Tabled: 5 November 2025
Answered: 13 November 2025
Question
Wendy Morton
Conservative — Aldridge-Brownhills
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Extended producer responsibility scheme on inflation for consumers in the (a) food and (b) retail sectors.
Answer
Mary CreaghIn 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 including impact on CPI inflation and impact on consumers wee...
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