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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 120359, tabled on 19 December 2017

Question

Caroline Lucas
Green Party
Brighton, Pavilion
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of whether the ban on imports of plastic waste by the Chinese Government from January 2018 will lead to (a) the stockpiling of plastic waste, (b) an increase in incineration of plastic waste, (c) an increase in landfill comprising of plastic waste and (d) environmental pollution in the UK; and if he will make a statement.

Answer

Dr Thérèse Coffey
Conservative
Suffolk Coastal
Commons

Answered on

8 January 2018

The Secretary of State set out the Government’s position in a Written Ministerial Statement on 08 January:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-01-08/HCWS391

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs