Question follow-through · 47856
Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department will introduce statutory guidance for the implementation of Simpler Recycling.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department will introduce statutory guidance for the implementation of Simpler Recycling.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
We have published non-statutory guidance to assist local authorities, other waste collectors and workplaces implement the Simpler Recycling requirements. This includes guidance on: Simpler recycling: household recycling in EnglandSimpler recycling: workpl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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