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Packaging: Recycling

Asked by Gavin RobinsonDemocratic Unionist PartyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 4 November 2025UIN 86213

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme on the level of (a) food and (b) retail consumer inflation in each of the next five years.

Answered by Mary Creagh

In autumn last year my department published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) scheme on packaging producers as a whole including impact on CPI inflation and impact on consumers weekly expenditure, when the regulations were laid in parliament.

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