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Deposit Return Schemes

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 46958, tabled on 10 September 2021

Question

Jeremy Hunt
Conservative
South West Surrey
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on introducing a deposit return scheme.

Answer

Rebecca Pow
Conservative
Taunton Deane
Commons

Answered on

15 September 2021

A second consultation on introducing a deposit return scheme (DRS) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland was published earlier this year and is now closed. The Government is analysing the responses to that consultation, with a view to publishing a Government response in due course.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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