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Deposit Return Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of introducing a return-to-retail deposit return scheme on local council revenue streams.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 13 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 18 Nov 2024
Answer: 19 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of introducing a return-to-retail deposit return scheme on local council revenue streams.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2024
Answer published
Through our regular industry engagement and international learnings from other schemes, there has been a broad consensus that a return to retail approach is the most effective way to launch a deposit return scheme (DRS) for drinks containers across the UK...

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