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Packaging: Recycling

Asked by Gavin RobinsonDemocratic Unionist PartyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 25 November 2024UIN 15182

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to charge Extended Producer Responsibility fees retrospectively for obligated packaging producers.

Answered by Mary Creagh

No. The amounts of the fees are calculated by reference to producers’ activities in the previous year, they are not fees payable in arrears for that previous year.

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