Question follow-through · 12585
Packaging: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has assessed the potential impact of Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging charges on social enterprises; and whether she has considered extending exemp
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has assessed the potential impact of Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging charges on social enterprises; and whether she has considered extending exemp
25 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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29 Jun 2026
Answer published
Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (pEPR) shifts the cost of managing household packaging waste from taxpayers to the producers who place packaging on the market. It funds local authorities and incentivises producers to reduce packaging and us...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Packaging: Recycling
1 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 29 June 2026 to Question 12585 on Packaging: Recycling, whether the ongoing review of the wider impacts of Extended Producer Responsibility for packagin