Question follow-through · 118925
Microplastics: EU Law
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the EU’s adoption of a ban on the sale of intentionally added microplastics.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 16 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the EU’s adoption of a ban on the sale of intentionally added microplastics.
11 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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16 Mar 2026
Answer published
In 2022, Defra initiated a research proposal to investigate the risks of intentionally added microplastics. The evidence project reviewed their emissions, the risks they pose both to human health and the environment, and included a socio-economic assessme...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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