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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding her Department has provided to Material Focus in each of the last three years; and if she will provide a breakdown of how this money has been spent.

Material Focus is an organisation – independent of government – which manages money raised by the WEEE compliance fee, established by the 2013 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations. This is a fee paid by Producer Compliance Schemes who miss their collection targets for waste electricals in any given year. The government does not give any money to Material Focus.