Written questions

Packaging: Recycling

Commons · Question 38162 · Tabled 13 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 19 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Nick Timothy

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has taken steps to promote material substitution, in the context of (a) recent trends in the level of Extended Producer Responsibility Fees and (b) the introduction of a de

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 19 Mar 2025

The Government is committed to transitioning to a circular economy. The packaging reforms increase producers’ roles in supporting this transition. Packaging EPR will make producers, rather than taxpayers, responsible for the costs of managing their packag...