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Packaging: Recycling

Commons · Question 12438 · Tabled 4 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 11 Nov 2024

Question

Asked by Gareth Snell

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of introducing the proposed extended producer responsibility scheme on the cost to consumers of (a) essential foo

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 11 Nov 2024

The Department’s impact assessment published online here has considered the impacts on grocery and non-grocery retail inflation from the introduction of extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR).