PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Packaging: Recycling (5 November 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to provide regular information to businesses on how revenues raised through the extended producer responsibility scheme are spent by local authorities.

Asked by:
Gareth Snell (Labour)

The packaging Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme will be run by the Scheme Administrator. Revenues will only fund efficient and effective local authority services. The Scheme Administrator will regularly publish information relating to its assessment of efficiency and effectiveness across the four nations once the scheme is up and running and offer support to local authorities to ensure their waste management services are efficient and effective.

Answered by:
Mary Creagh (Labour)
12 November 2024