Question follow-through · 81723
Plastics: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure a level playing field between companies who export plastic recycling and UK based plastic reprocessors.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure a level playing field between companies who export plastic recycling and UK based plastic reprocessors.
21 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2025
Answer published
The export of waste is subject to strict controls set out in UK legislation. Facilities receiving UK waste must be operated in accordance with human health and environmental protection standards that are broadly equivalent to those established in UK legis...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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