Written questions

Plastics: Waste

Commons · Question 18725 · Tabled 9 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 12 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Joe Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of restrictions on the use of single-use plastic.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 12 Dec 2024

Defra officials are in the process of conducting a Post Implementation Review of the Environmental Regulations 2020, which includes the bans and restrictions on plastic straws, stirrers, and plastic-stemmed cotton buds. This is due to be published in Octo...