Question follow-through · 17886

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the evidential basis is for the levels of Extended Producer Responsibility fee for (a) steel food cans, (b) fibre-based cartons and (c) plastic pouches.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Dec 2024
Answer
17 Dec 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the evidential basis is for the levels of Extended Producer Responsibility fee for (a) steel food cans, (b) fibre-based cartons and (c) plastic pouches.

  2. 6 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 17 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    Defra published the second iteration of packaging extended producer responsibility (pEPR) illustrative base fees on 30 of September. These illustrative fees are estimates only, based on the best available data at the time. They are not the final base fees...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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