Question follow-through · 19028
Packaging: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of costs associated with extended producer responsibility on small businesses.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of costs associated with extended producer responsibility on small businesses.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
We have made a full assessment of the impacts that implementing packaging extended producer responsibility will have. This includes assessment of the impacts on small businesses, which can be found in Section 8 of the impact assessment: The Producer Respo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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