| Heading: |
Plastics: Recycling |
| Question ID: |
1815059 |
| UIN: |
61658 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5253 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Richard Baker
|
| Asking Member handle: |
RichardBakerMP
|
| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@RichardBakerMP
|
| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to raise extended producer responsibility base fees for plastic. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
|
| Date answered: |
2025-06-30 |
| Date answer corrected: |
|
| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
|
| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
|
| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
|
| Correcting Member ID: |
|
| Correcting Member display name: |
|
| Correcting Member handle: |
|
| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
|
| Answer text: |
From year 2 of pEPR (2026/2027), base fees will be modulated to drive a shift to more environmentally sustainable packaging design, with recyclability as the indicator. Materials that are less recyclable, such as some plastics, will incur higher fees, wit... |
| Original answer text: |
|
| Comparable answer text: |
|
| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |