Question follow-through · 40472
Beaches: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage recycling at beaches.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 28 Mar 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage recycling at beaches.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government has introduced Simpler Recycling, which from 31 March 2025 will require small, medium and large workplaces in England to recycle the core waste streams (plastic, metal, glass, paper and card) and food waste. This will include cafés, shops, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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