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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 5 February 2021 to Question 144990 on Plastics: Waste, whether it remains her Department's policy to issue a consultation on the ban on the export of plastic waste to non-OECD countries.

Yes. Defra officials are working to publish a consultation on delivering a ban on the export of plastic waste to non-OECD countries this year.