Question follow-through · 32578
Domestic Waste: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish each of the responses to the final Simpler Recycling consultation.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 6 Mar 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish each of the responses to the final Simpler Recycling consultation.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Mar 2025
Answer published
In October 2023, Defra held two consultations on Simpler Recycling, and has since published consultation responses for both online, including a summary of responses:Simpler recycling in England: additional policies - GOV.UKExemptions and statutory guidanc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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