Question follow-through · 18182
Food: Packaging
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of material switching by food producers currently using metal food cans on (a) UK food security and (b) the (i) recyclability of a
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 39 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 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 material switching by food producers currently using metal food cans on (a) UK food security and (b) the (i) recyclability of a
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Scheme Administrator will study what measures may be needed to mitigate against material switching, where switching may produce perverse environmental outcomes. As pEPR places the cost of disposing of packaging back on those who place packaging on the...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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