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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what target date his Department has set to entirely eliminate single-use plastic.

HM Government's 25 Year Environment Plan sets out our ambition to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste by 2042. Avoidable plastic waste is waste that it is technologically, environmentally and economically practicable to prevent from becoming residual waste. Plastics have an important role to play in certain applications and we must think carefully about how we solve the problems that arise from plastic waste to avoid unintended consequences.