Claire Hanna MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Deposit Return Schemes: CostsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64053More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's planned timetable is for publishing the set-up costs for the Deposit Return Scheme.
Answer: The Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for drinks containers in England is industry-led, funded by producers and delivered by producers and retailers collectively through the Deposit Management Organisation. Most international schemes follow this model. The appo...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRecycling: Local GovernmentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64052More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to take to ensure that local authorities use funding from the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme to improve recycling provision.
Answer: We have instructed PackUK to exercise its existing powers within the pEPR regulations to ensure local authorities in England only receive pEPR funds that are spent on household packaging, waste management, and recycling. When local authority payments are ...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRecycling: Local GovernmentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64051More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to ensure that funding derived from Extended Producer Responsibility fees will be ringfenced to support local authorities to improve their recycling provi
Answer: We have instructed PackUK to exercise its existing powers within the pEPR regulations to ensure local authorities in England only receive pEPR funds that are spent on household packaging, waste management, and recycling. When local authority payments are ...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPackaging: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the policy objective is of (a) extended producer responsibility and (b) packaging recovering notes; and what the relationship is between the two policies.
Answer: Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (pEPR) is intended to make producers responsible for the costs of managing their packaging, incentivising them to use less packaging and make the packaging they do use more sustainable. The key pEPR obligatio...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPesticidesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10174More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the updated National Action Plan on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides will be published.
Answer: We intend to publish a National Action Plan in due course that reflects the Government’s priority to minimise the risks and impact of pesticides on human health and the environment and facilitate sustainable use.
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordElectronic CigarettesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6605More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on introducing a ban on single use vapes.
Answer: We are reviewing the current proposals to restrict the sale and supply of single use vapes and will outline next steps as soon as possible.
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMushrooms: Northern IrelandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will (a) hold discussions with the (Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in the Northern Ireland Executive on the potential impact of levels of (i) investment
Answer: This Government is serious about revitalising the relationship between UK and Devolved Governments and partnering to deliver economic growth and stability. The Seasonal Workers visa route is a bespoke visa currently available for workers outside of the UK...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordGlass: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4268More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the extender producer responsibility scheme on sustainable glass producers.
Answer: No, the 2022 PePR impact assessment made an assessment of the impact of introducing the scheme on packaging producers as a whole. This does not split the assessment by sector. The Government has now published the first set of pEPR illustrative base fees a...
Answered 13 Sept 2024
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