Question follow-through · 44944

Recycling: Economic Growth

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed fee structure for the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme on economic growth.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 8 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 22 Apr 2025
Answer: 29 Apr 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed fee structure for the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme on economic growth.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
In October 2024, the Government published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the pEPR scheme on packaging producers as a whole. This impact assessment did not split the assessment by sector.

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