Question follow-through · 77344
Plastics: Business and Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help support (a) local authorities and (b) businesses to (i) comply with new plastic regulations and (ii) transition to sustainable alternatives.
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
- 17 Oct 2025 · 32 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 help support (a) local authorities and (b) businesses to (i) comply with new plastic regulations and (ii) transition to sustainable alternatives.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2025
Answer published
We have interpreted this question as referring to Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging, as well as our work on reducing Single Use Plastics. The Government has provided approximately £700,000 to support local authorities in enforcing the 2023 ba...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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