Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much her Department has spent on plastic (a) pens (b) cups and (c) bags for promotion and marketing in each of the last five years.

The information requested is not readily available. Attempting to find and extract the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.

Building on the success of our existing restrictions on certain single use plastic items and the single use carrier bag charge, the Government will restrict the supply of single use plastic plates, bowls, trays, and ban all single use plastic cutlery, balloon sticks and expanded and extruded polystyrene food and drinks containers from October this year.