Afzal Khan MP: written questions

4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025

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Written questions

Waste Disposal: Beverage ContainersDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55182More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of breakage rate of glass beverage containers in kerbside collections.
Answer: Defra has not made an assessment on the breakage rate of glass beverage contains in kerbside collections.
Answered 9 Jun 2025
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Beverage Containers: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55181More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the levels of recycling rates for (a) plastic, (b) metal and (c) glass beverage containers.
Answer: Defra has not made an assessment of trends in the levels of recycling rates for plastic, metal and glass beverage containers.However, Defra’s Impact Assessment for the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) uses external estimates of the recycling rates for beverage...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
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Beverage Containers: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55180More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to increase the recycling rate of glass beverage containers.
Answer: This Government has set ambitious recycling targets under the packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) regulations, with annual increases to glass packaging. The packaging recycling target for glass in 2025 is 74% and will increase to 85% by 2030...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
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Countryside: Greater ManchesterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44256More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on improving responsible access to nature in Greater Manchester.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of access to nature for health and wellbeing and is committed to ensuring it is safe, inclusive and appropriate. We are delivering on our ambitious manifesto commitments to create nine new national river walks and ...
Answered 8 May 2025
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Recreation Spaces: AccessDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44255More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on improving access to parks and green spaces.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of access to nature for health and wellbeing and is committed to ensuring it is safe, inclusive and appropriate. We are delivering on our ambitious manifesto commitments to create nine new national river walks and ...
Answered 8 May 2025
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Deposit Return Schemes: WalesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39553More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on aligning the UK-wide bottle return scheme with the planned scheme for Wales.
Answer: The Government is committed to deliver a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) in England in October 2027 and to realise its benefits of reducing litter, increasing recycling, and creating high quality recyclate that will support the transition to a circular econom...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
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Glass: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39552More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing extended producer responsibility collection targets for glass bottles to 90%.
Answer: Collection targets are not a feature of the extended producer responsibility scheme for packaging (pEPR). However, the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024, which implement pEPR, set challenging, but achieva...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
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Textiles: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8853More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to provide financial incentives for businesses engaged in (a) upcycling and (b) the sustainable production of textiles.
Answer: The Secretary of State has asked his department to convene a taskforce of experts from across the Government, industry, academia and relevant non-governmental organisations. The Taskforce will help to develop a Circular Economy Strategy for England and a ...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
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Plastics: WasteDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8852More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in (a) France, (b) Germany and (c) Sweden on reducing plastic waste.
Answer: The Secretary of State has not held discussions on plastic waste with his counterparts in France, Germany, and Sweden. However, officials have had discussions with their counterparts in other countries to learn lessons on tackling waste, including plastic...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
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Department or topic	Published records
Cabinet Office	1
Department for Business and Trade	3
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	3
Department for Education	9
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	2
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	9
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	4
Department for Transport	6
Department for Work and Pensions	5
Department of Health and Social Care	20
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	3
Home Office	3
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	9
Ministry of Justice	1
Scotland Office	1
Treasury	7
Women and Equalities	1

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