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Commons · Question 45789 · Tabled 17 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 30 Apr 2025

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Asked by Tonia Antoniazzi

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the classification by the Office for Budget Responsibility of the extended producer responsibility schem

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Answered by Mary Creagh, 30 Apr 2025

Whilst pEPR was announced a few years ago, Defra has now built a modelling framework to calculate local authority costs and producer fees that was used for the first time by the OBR to include pEPR in their forecast. Pending a decision by the ONS, the OBR...