Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells and Mendip Hills)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Answer of 25 February to Question 113532, how many exporters and brokers issued with a warning notice have subsequently come into compliance and provided the post-shipment information required.
Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency (EA) does not currently record information on a central system or in a way that allows it to identify how many exporters and brokers issued with a warning notice have come into compliance. The EA is updating its processes to enable this information to be captured in future.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells and Mendip Hills)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 25 February 2026 to Question 113532, how many exporters or brokers who have failed to comply with the requirement to provide post shipment information within the revised sixteen week deadline have been issued with a prohibition or stop notice by the Environment Agency.
Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
As of 5 June 2026, the Environment Agency has issued seven prohibition notices to exporters that failed to comply with the requirement to provide post-shipment information within the revised sixteen-week deadline.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells and Mendip Hills)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her answer of the 20th April 2026 to Question UIN 124082, how many of the 3277 shipments referenced in her response as having taken place between the 28th October 2025 and 2nd February 2026 had a) exceeded the sixteen week deadline for the submission of post-shipment information as of the 30th April 2026 and b) of that number how many have not supplied geo-tagged photographic information within the sixteen week window.
Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency received post-shipment information for 2,503 of 3,315 shipments. This amendment to the total is because of shipments being initially reported which were out of scope. All of the 812 late submissions have been followed up with the exporter.
1,059 of the 2,503 shipments have not supplied geo-tagged photos, but have provided alternative evidence to demonstrate that material had been correctly received.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells and Mendip Hills)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her answer of the 20th April 2026 to Question UIN 124082, how many of the 533 shipments referenced in her response as having taken place between the 28th October 2025 and 2nd February 2026, which had exceeded the sixteen week deadline for the submission of post-shipment information by the 30th March 2026 and had provided incomplete information, and were therefore deemed non-compliant, have subsequently provided additional post shipment information including geo-tagged evidence in the form required.
Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency’s (EA) data is maintained as a rolling operational dataset. The EA is currently unable to identify how many of the shipments that were non-compliant in this period are now compliant. Collating it within the time available would incur disproportionate cost as each shipment would have to be checked manually.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells and Mendip Hills)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her answer of the 20th April 2026 to Question UIN 124082, how many of the 548 shipments referenced in her response as having taken place between the 28th October 2025 and 2nd February 2026 which had exceeded the sixteen week deadline for the submission of post-shipment information by the 30th March 2026 but had failed to provide any information have subsequently provided the post shipment information required.
Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency (EA) has now received post‑shipment information for 531 of the 548 shipments. The EA is now following up with the exporters of the remaining 17 shipments to ensure that the material has been taken to an appropriate facility.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells and Mendip Hills)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many aluminium cans were exported from the UK for recycling via the Packaging Export Recovery Note system in each year from 2023 to 2025.
Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
In 2023 there were 109,638 tonnes of waste packaging aluminium reported to the Environment Agency as being exported from England via the Packaging Export Recovery Note system. In 2024 there were 105,821 tonnes reported, in 2025 there were 103,888 tonnes reported.
This total includes waste packaging aluminium, as opposed to just aluminium cans, as figures are recorded by material rather than packaging types.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells and Mendip Hills)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her answer of 12th February 2026 to Question UIN 111664, how many of the 3,281 documents for which an Annex VII was submitted between 28th October 2025 and 2nd February 2026 have (a) have now passed the revised sixteen week deadline and (b) of that number how many have not supplied sufficient geo-tagged photographic information within 16 weeks.
Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Following a reconciliation process, the Environment Agency confirms that 3,277 Annex VII forms were submitted at least 3 days prior to shipment between 28 October 2025 and 2 February 2026. This minor amendment results from shipments being initially reported which were out of scope.
Of the 3,277 shipments, 1,398 exceeded the 16-week deadline (30 March 2026) to provide post-shipment information.
Of these 1398 shipments, the Environment Agency has:
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells and Mendip Hills)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, further to her response to Question UIN 106503 on 22nd January 2026, whether the regulations to remove the T8 exemption for the treatment of waste tyres have now been drafted and if she will provide an update on her timetable for laying those regulations.
Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Work continues on the drafting of the legislation which covers the whole package of waste exemption reforms, including the removal of the T8 exemption, and the timing remains subject to Parliamentary time. When the Regulations come into force the published transition periods will begin. For the T8 exemption this is 3 months.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells and Mendip Hills)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, further to her response of 12th February 2026 to question UIN 113530, how many of the 16 receiving sites that had failed to provide post-shipment Annex VII information have subsequently provided information on some consignments.
Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency (EA) is working through a significant submission of data from exporters and will be able to confirm the position by 2 April 2026. Thus far, the EA is not aware of any additional information relating to any of the 16 sites.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells and Mendip Hills)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Annex VII documents relating to consignments of end-of-life tyres were submitted to the Environment Agency’s enhanced verification procedure between 2nd February 2026 and 2nd March 2026.
Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Between 2 February 2026 and 2 March 2026 the Environment Agency received 1301 Annex VII pre-shipment submissions relating to the export of waste tyres/rubber to India.