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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate she has made of the potential impact of the proposed packaging extended producer responsibility scheme on business costs.

An impact assessment, setting out the costs and benefits of Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging, was published in March 2022 alongside the Government response to our 2021 consultation. This estimates the net cost to business of these reforms at £1206.8 million per year.

An updated impact assessment will be published later this year alongside the draft Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2023.