PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Packaging: Waste Disposal (12 January 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential financial cost to producers in supply chains of the Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (England) Regulations 2022.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

The impacts of these specific Regulations - and the regulations that are being introduced in parallel in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - on producers are limited to the additional data collection and reporting requirements, and familiarisation with the new Regulations.

These additional data reporting costs are estimated to cost producers across the UK £106 million over the appraisal period of the impact assessment (2023-2033). This includes both increased data reporting costs for the approximately 7000 producers who are already obligated under the current producer responsibility system, and new costs for the approximately 3000 producers who will be newly obligated under these Regulations. These newly obligated producers will also face one-off costs associated with familiarisation at a total estimated cost of £2.5 million in 2023 only.

A full impact assessment on reforms to the UK packaging producer responsibility system has been prepared and published alongside the Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (England) Regulations.

Answered by:
Rebecca Pow (Conservative)
24 January 2023