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Packaging: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility scheme on (a) household costs through higher retail prices, (b) food price inflation and (c
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 21 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility scheme on (a) household costs through higher retail prices, (b) food price inflation and (c
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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21 Jul 2026
Answer published
The 2024 final impact assessment for Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (pEPR) estimated it could result in a one-off increase in CPI inflation of 0.07 percentage points, or an increase to average weekly household expenditure of £0.91. It did ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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