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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total cost of fees paid by obligated organisations to PRN compliance schemes was in each of the last five years; and what the total value of trade in packaging recovery notes and packaging export recovery notes was in each of the last five years.

Under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations, obligated organisations (“producers”) can choose to join a compliance scheme or register directly with the Environment Agency. Based on statutory annual registration fees and data that the Environment Agency holds on the number of registered producers, the estimated total annual registration fees paid by obligated organisations in England in each of the last five years is shown in the following table:

Obligated organisations may pay additional administrative or other fees to compliance schemes as part of commercial arrangements between them. We do not hold data on these fees.

The total packaging waste recovery notes (PRN) and packaging waste export recovery notes (PERN) revenue reported to the Environment Agencies by accredited reprocessors and exporters in each of the last five years is shown in the following table: