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Beverage Containers: Fees and Charges

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 121708, tabled on 9 January 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will begin a public consultation on a levy to be raised on plastic cups.

Answered on

16 January 2018

We will shortly be launching a call for evidence seeking views on how the tax system or charges could reduce the amount of waste produced by the most environmentally damaging single use plastics. HM Treasury and Defra are working closely together to develop this.