| Heading: |
Packaging: Recycling |
| Question ID: |
1797992 |
| UIN: |
48692 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5166 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mark Sewards
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| Asking Member handle: |
markjsewards
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@markjsewards
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the introduction of Extended Producer Responsibility packaging taxation will ensure that the cost of recycling is passed to manufacturers. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-06 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
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| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) implements the polluter-pays principle by obligating brands and packaging producers to pay the costs of managing household packaging waste. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |