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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to enhance the regulation of extended producer responsibility after the UK leaves the EU.

The Clean Growth Strategy makes a commitment to explore how we can better incentivise producers to manage resources more efficiently through producer responsibility schemes. The 25 Year Environment Plan builds on this and commits to reform the producer responsibility system (including the packaging waste regulations) to incentivise producers to take greater responsibility for the environmental impacts of their products.

The Government is developing a renewed strategy on resources and waste that looks ahead at opportunities outside the EU. This will set out the detail of how we will meet the ambitions for resources and waste that are set out in the Clean Growth Strategy and 25 Year Environment Plan. This will include extended producer responsibility. The strategy will be published later this year.

We will consult on our proposals to reform the existing Producer Responsibility Packaging Waste Regulations later this year after the publication of the Resources and Waste Strategy. This will look at all aspects of the regime, including future recycling targets, mechanisms to incentivise better design and encourage the use of recycled material, as well as the funding of collection within the system.