Question follow-through · 68298
Plastics: Treaties
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to support a global plastics treaty to protect coastal areas.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to support a global plastics treaty to protect coastal areas.
17 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to reaching agreement on an ambitious and effective treaty to end plastic pollution when negotiations resume in August 2025 and will be working closely with countries both within the High Ambition Coalition and outside it to ac...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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