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Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to direct funding from fees through the Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme towards recycling (a) infrastructure and (b) awareness campaigns.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
24 Mar 2025
Answer
26 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to direct funding from fees through the Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme towards recycling (a) infrastructure and (b) awareness campaigns.

  2. 24 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    pEPR makes packaging producers responsible for the costs incurred by UK Local Authorities in managing household packaging waste, including the fees they pay to recycling facilities. This will provide around 1.5 billion pounds of new funding in the UK in 2...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Beaches and Water: Safety

4 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that (a) polluted and (b) unsafe (i) beaches and (ii) bathing areas have signage to alert the public.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Rural Payments Agency: Payments

4 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) expedite payments and (b) improve the payment structure of the Rural Payments Agency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Electronic Equipment: Waste Disposal

4 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help improve data in the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment system.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Recycling: Exemptions

28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he would make it his policy to create exemptions for Extender Producer Responsibility depending on (a) a producer’s sustainability and (b) B-Corp status.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Sustainable Farming Incentive

14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including a farm education option in the Sustainable Farming Incentive.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pesticides: Public Places

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the use of pesticides by (a) local authorities and (b) other public bodies on the environment in public spaces.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Animal Welfare: Trapping

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of banning snares on animal welfare.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Batteries: Recycling

5 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of adopting EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 as part of the Circular Economy Strategy.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Minerals: Recycling

5 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to maximise critical mineral recovery from (a) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and (b) lithium-ion batteries.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Seals: Animal Welfare

10 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adding seals to Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cats and Dogs: Smuggling

10 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the illegal importation of puppies and kittens.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Trapping: Regulation

10 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress her Department has made on implementing a ban on the use, sale, and possession of snare traps in England; and whether she has a planned timeline for legislative action.