Written questions

Glass: Packaging

Commons · Question 90207 · Tabled 12 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 20 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of increases in the cost of glass packaging products on their levels of usage.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 20 Nov 2025

In autumn last year my department published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) scheme on packaging producers as a whole, when the regulations were laid in parliament. This does not ...