Question follow-through · 77137
Recycling: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to reduce disparities in accepted materials for recycling across different local authorities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2025 · 30 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to reduce disparities in accepted materials for recycling across different local authorities.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Simpler Recycling reforms will ensure that across England, people will be able to recycle the same materials, whether at home, work or school. Every household and workplace (businesses and relevant non-domestic premises like schools and hospitals) acr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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