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Glass: Deposit Return Schemes

Commons · Question 79891 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 17 Oct 2025

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Asked by Sir Ashley Fox

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department taking to ensure that the Deposit Management Organisation can operate effectively in the context of the Welsh government’s decision to proceed with a scheme t

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Answered by Mary Creagh, 17 Oct 2025

The regulations allow the Deposit Management Organisation(s) for England and Northern Ireland to work in an interoperable way with any other deposit return schemes. We previously published agreed interoperability requirements which would ensure that schem...