Waste Management
Commons · Question 5411 · Tabled 11 Sep 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by David Simmonds
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 6 September 2024 to Question 2316 on Equality, whether the socio-economic duty will apply to local authority decisions on the configuration of household waste
Answer
Answered by Mary Creagh, 7 Oct 2024
Local authorities must comply with all relevant Equalities Act duties and in England this will include the socio-economic duty in due course.