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Waste Management

Asked by Shaun DaviesLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 29 October 2025UIN 84452

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Resources and waste strategy for England, published on 18 December 2018, what her planned timetable is for implementing reforms to the carriers', brokers' and dealers' regime.

Answered by Mary Creagh

The Resources and Waste Strategy for England was published under the previous Government. This Government has published a policy paper on gov.uk setting out its plans for reform of the waste Carrier Broker Dealer regime in England https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reforming-the-waste-carrier-broker-and-dealer-system.

Work has begun to draft the necessary legislative amendments and will be progressed when parliamentary time allows.

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