Question follow-through · 9500
Fishing Gear: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing an Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for fishing gear.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2026 · 10 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 assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing an Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for fishing gear.
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2026
Answer published
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) has been assessed, including through a study commissioned by Defra and the devolved governments, available here, which indicated EPR could be a complex and costly intervention. Defra officials have previously engaged...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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