Question follow-through · 111506
Plastics: Seas and Oceans
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to (a) define and regulate the classification of ocean plastic and related environmental claims and (b) tackle marketing practices where products
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to (a) define and regulate the classification of ocean plastic and related environmental claims and (b) tackle marketing practices where products
10 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2026
Answer published
Under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCCA), businesses are prohibited from misleading consumers and must have evidence to substantiate any claims made. Where a business markets a product as made from ocean plastic or beach clean...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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