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Packaging: Recycling

Asked by Gareth SnellLabour (Co-op)Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 11 November 2024UIN 12438

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of introducing the proposed extended producer responsibility scheme on the cost to consumers of (a) essential foo

Answered by Mary Creagh

The Department’s impact assessment published online here has considered the impacts on grocery and non-grocery retail inflation from the introduction of extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR).

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