Question follow-through · 43650
Packaging: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of facilitating the recycling of blister packs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 11 Apr 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
- Nature Conservation · 7 Apr 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of facilitating the recycling of blister packs.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Apr 2025
Answer published
Through making producers responsible for the costs of managing the packaging they use; packaging extended producer responsibility incentivises producers to use less packaging and transition to re-usable or easy-to-recycle packaging. Defra has previously c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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