Question follow-through · 49598
Deposit Return Schemes: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of supporting the introduction of bottle deposit schemes in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) other rural communities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 9 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of supporting the introduction of bottle deposit schemes in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) other rural communities.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 May 2025
Answer published
The Government has engaged with stakeholders as we developed policy for the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for drink containers, including two public consultations: the first in 2019 and the second in 2021. 83% of the 2,590 responses to the 2021 consultation...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs: Finance
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Sewage: Somerset
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Waste: Crime
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Fly-tipping: Somerset
12 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support a reduction of incidents of fly-tipping in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) South Somerset.
Droughts: Yeovil
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