Question follow-through · 9653
Deposit Return Schemes
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 22 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jun 2026
Question tabled
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.
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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22 Jun 2026
Answer published
Exchange for Change, a not-for-profit, industry-led organisation, has been appointed to design and deliver the UK’s Deposit Return Scheme across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, including the specifics of the digital infrastructure and labelling re...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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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.