Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will set targets for recycling rates for the periods (a) by 2020 and (b) by 2030.
We are committed to meeting existing EU targets on recycling of packaging and household waste for 2020 and have no plans to introduce further targets for that date.
The resources and waste strategy, to be published later this year, will set out future targets and milestones on this area.