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Packaging: Recycling

Commons · Question 92218 · Tabled 18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 27 Nov 2025

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Asked by Tonia Antoniazzi

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact that the impairment fee applied under the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme will have on business cashflow and financial stab

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Answered by Mary Creagh, 27 Nov 2025

Incorporating impairment provisions for bad debt in a cost recovery scheme is an expected consideration of Government as detailed in Managing Public Money guidelines and is common practice when setting fees. Whilst Notice of Liabilities issued under the E...