Written questions

Packaging: Recycling

Commons · Question 15590 · Tabled 2 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 9 Jul 2026

Question

Asked by Peter Fortune

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the cumulative cost of the Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme on the brewing sector.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 9 Jul 2026

The Government published an updated assessment in October 2024 of the impact of introducing Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging. This assessed impacts on packaging producers as a whole but did not assess impacts on individual products such as b...