Producer Responsibility (Free Newspapers) (Hansard, 24 February 2003)

HC Deb 24 February 2003 vol 400 cc265-6W 266W

§ Mr. Sheerman
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps she is taking to apply the producer responsibility principle to the publishers of free newspapers. [97098]

§ Mr. Meacher
Our producer responsibility agreement made in April 2000 with the Newspaper Publishers Association set targets for the recycled content of all UK newspapers. The first target for 2001 was exceeded and recycled paper now makes up 63.5 per cent. of our newspapers.