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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department will publish details on the fees obligated businesses will have to pay under packaging Extended Producer Responsibility from April 2024.

Large organisations, who will pay disposal fees to cover local authority packaging waste management costs, will be informed of their fee once regulatory checks have been completed on all organisations from the second six-monthly data submission. The deadline for this submission is 1 April 2024, which will allow three months for or-ganisations to collate and submit their July – December 2023 data. We are aiming to provide producers with illustrative base fees at the earliest opportunity. The estimates will be published for information only, and based on the best evidence available at this time, but should not be used for the purpose of business planning. We also intend to produce an updated estimate of fees by the end of 2023, following the first six-monthly data submission, the deadline for which is 1 October 2023.