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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether glass bottles will be included in her Department's proposed Deposit Return Scheme.

Glass drinks bottles will not be captured by the Deposit Return Scheme for drinks containers in England and Northern Ireland. The scheme will include polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, steel and aluminium cans.

Instead, glass drinks bottles will be within the scope of the Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (EPR) alongside other types of glass packaging. EPR will place recycling targets on producers in relation to glass packaging and require relevant obligated producers to cover the costs of collecting and managing glass packaging arising in household waste and discarded in street bins managed by local authorities.