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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the UK's recycling infrastructure on meeting domestic demand.

Defra intends to publish a Waste Infrastructure Roadmap in the coming months. This will set out anticipated waste arisings to 2035, taking into account the impact of Defra’s Collection and Packaging Reforms, and will map this against known waste management infrastructure. Once published, this will provide a signal as to where there is considered to be a likely over or under-provision of waste management capacity to support investors and local authorities in decision making.