Written questions

Packaging: Recycling

Commons · Question 17886 · Tabled 4 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 17 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Lee Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the evidential basis is for the levels of Extended Producer Responsibility fee for (a) steel food cans, (b) fibre-based cartons and (c) plastic pouches.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 17 Dec 2024

Defra published the second iteration of packaging extended producer responsibility (pEPR) illustrative base fees on 30 of September. These illustrative fees are estimates only, based on the best available data at the time. They are not the final base fees...