Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Environmental Protection (Microbeads) (England) Regulations 2017 will be subject to the one-in, three-out rule.

The ‘one, three out rule’ related to an administrative rule for the last Parliament that supported the Government’s business impact target (BIT) for that Parliament. The Government is currently considering what the BIT should be for this Parliamentary session. This includes which measures are within its scope and which are not.