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 made of (a) residual waste excluding major mineral waste, (b) municipal residual waste, (c) residual municipal food waste per capita, (d) residual municipal plastic waste per capita, (e) municipal paper and card waste per capita, (f) residual municipal metal waste per capita and (g) residual municipal glass waste per capita in the latest year for which data is available.

The total mass of residual waste within scope of the interim targets announced in the Environmental Improvement Plan 2023 was a) 574 kg per person or 32.3 million tonnes, b) 468 kg per person, c) 127 kg per person, d) 75 kg per person, e) 99 kg per person, f) 16 kg per person, and g) 12 kg per person for the 2019 baseline year. Progress against these targets has not yet been reported.