Question follow-through · 88755
Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the lack of sorting requirements of collected materials under Simpler Recycling on recycling rates.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
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- Deposit Return Schemes · 15 Jun 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the lack of sorting requirements of collected materials under Simpler Recycling on recycling rates.
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2025
Answer published
As part of the Simpler Recycling reforms, the Government has made an exemption in regulations to allow local authorities and other waste collectors to co-collect plastic, metal and glass in the same container. This applies in all circumstances without the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Recycling
25 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she intends to publish the Circular Economy Growth Plan; and what opportunity stakeholders will have to formally respond to plan.
Seafood: Faroe Islands
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Government consultation response of 12 June 2025 on fairer food labelling, whether she has assessed the potential merits of mandating country-of-origin labelling
Cetaceans: Faroe Islands
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications of Faroese cetacean hunting for (a) international marine conservation and (b) biodiversity agreements.
Cetaceans: Faroe Islands
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Animal Welfare Strategy published on 22 December 2025, if she will extend the strategy to include the welfare of marine mammals hunted in the Faroe Islands that a
Deposit Return Schemes
15 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she if taking to help ensure that the digital infrastructure underpinning the Deposit Return Scheme includes next-generation barcodes and digital product information.
Food: Waste
9 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to bring forward regulations to introduce a public food waste reporting requirement for large businesses.