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Deposit Return Schemes

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 13535, tabled on 11 November 2024

Question

Phil Brickell
Labour
Bolton West
Commons

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

Answer

Mary Creagh
Labour
Coventry East
Commons

Answered on

14 November 2024

This Government is committed to delivering the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for drinks containers in October 2027, as agreed with the devolved Governments of the UK, and in accordance with the Joint Policy Statement published in April 2024.

We plan to lay the DRS regulations for England/Northern Ireland before Parliament in late 2024 and for them to come into force in early 2025 (assuming parliamentary time allows) and for the Deposit Management Organisation (DMO), who will run the scheme, to be appointed in April 2025 as planned.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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