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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of Extended Producer Responsibility fees being applied to goods that do not enter the household waste stream and that are paid for through commercial waste management on pubs.

Defra recognises the issue of 'dual use packaging’ and is assessing potential changes to the household packaging definition in the Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging regulations. Defra is working with stakeholders to resolve this issue through interim and longer-term approaches.