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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to allocate a proportion of the fees collected through the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment recycling scheme to improve rates of recycling of vaping products.

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations already place obligations on producers of electrical equipment, including vapes, to finance the collection and treatment of these products when they become waste. We will shortly consult on changes to the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations to consider what, if any, changes to that legislation are needed to ensure the vaping sector specifically plays its part in properly financing the cost of collection and treatment of their products when they become waste. As part of that consultation, we will also consider measures aimed at driving up levels of collection of household WEEE, including vapes, to ensure more of it is properly recycled.