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Beverage Containers: Fees and Charges

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 121702, tabled on 9 January 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential effect on levels of employment of introducing a 25p levy on disposable coffee cups; and if he will make a statement.

Answered on

16 January 2018

We are aware of calls for levies to be added to single use coffee cups, following the Environmental Audit Committee’s recent report. We are carefully considering the Committee’s recommendations and will respond shortly.

We have not made an assessment of the potential effect of this proposed levy on levels of employment.