Question follow-through · 108964
Waste Disposal: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether staffing levels at the Environment Agency are adequate to manage the transition to the new PRN system.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 2 Feb 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether staffing levels at the Environment Agency are adequate to manage the transition to the new PRN system.
29 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Environment Agency (EA) has increased staffing to ensure it can manage the transition to the new PRN system and deliver its regulatory duties under the new packaging regulations. Additional resource has been allocated to support both the new operation...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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