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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to reduce microplastic pollution as part of the proposed Circular Economy Growth Plan.

The Government is committed to delivering a more circular and resilient economy for good growth in every place. We established a Circular Economy Task Force to co-design our approach and plastics is one of the sectors they considered. We will outline our next steps shortly.