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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2017 to Question 67199, if her Department will publish the results of her Department's consultation on the proposals to ban microbeads in cosmetics and personal care products and the evidence under review.

We plan to publish the results of our consultation on proposals to ban microbeads in May 2017.