Question follow-through · 78073
Deposit Return Schemes: VAT
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the application of VAT to unredeemed deposits within the Deposit Return Scheme on (a) inflation and (b) consume
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the application of VAT to unredeemed deposits within the Deposit Return Scheme on (a) inflation and (b) consume
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2025
Answer published
HM Treasury, as the lead department, and HM Revenue & Customs are continuing to consider the best way of accounting for VAT on DRS deposits and will set out further detail in due course. The Government is committed to ensuring that the DRS operate eff...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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