Question follow-through · 64945
Recycling: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of basing the calculation of Extended Producer Responsibility fees on volume.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 3 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jul 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 basing the calculation of Extended Producer Responsibility fees on volume.
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government is not considering the adoption of a units-based metric. In accordance with the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024, Extender Producer Responsibility disposal fees for packaging are calculate...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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