Question follow-through · 86965
Beverage Containers: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme’s glass packaging fees on the competitiveness of small and medium-sized beverage pro
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme’s glass packaging fees on the competitiveness of small and medium-sized beverage pro
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2025
Answer published
In autumn last year my department published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) scheme on packaging producers as a whole, when the regulations were laid in parliament. This impact as...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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