Question follow-through · 45789

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the classification by the Office for Budget Responsibility of the extended producer responsibility schem

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
17 Apr 2025
Target answer date
23 Apr 2025
Answer
30 Apr 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 17 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 implications for his policies of the classification by the Office for Budget Responsibility of the extended producer responsibility schem

  2. 23 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 30 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    Whilst pEPR was announced a few years ago, Defra has now built a modelling framework to calculate local authority costs and producer fees that was used for the first time by the OBR to include pEPR in their forecast. Pending a decision by the ONS, the OBR...

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Packaging: Recycling

18 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact that the impairment fee applied under the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme will have on business cashflow and financial stab

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Packaging: Recycling

18 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has held discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of the impairment fee on financial pressures on the British brewing sector.

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Packaging: Fees and Charges

18 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the impairment fee under the extended producer responsibility scheme on future impairment costs.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Ecology: National Security

26 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her department's policies of the National Security Assessment on Global Ecosystems, published 20th January 2026.

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Ecology: National Security

26 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the National Security Assessment on Global Ecosystems, published on 20 January 2026.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Plastics: Seals

29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of plastic flying rings on seal populations.

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Plastics

29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a ban on the import and sale of plastic flying rings.