| Heading: |
Deposit Return Schemes: Rural Areas |
| Question ID: |
1799162 |
| UIN: |
49598 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5191 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Adam Dance
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Adam Dance
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of supporting the introduction of bottle deposit schemes in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) other rural communities. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-09 |
| 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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| Answer text: |
The Government has engaged with stakeholders as we developed policy for the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for drink containers, including two public consultations: the first in 2019 and the second in 2021. 83% of the 2,590 responses to the 2021 consultation... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |