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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the impact on businesses of the decision to run Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging alongside the existing requirement to purchase Packaging Recovery Notes from 2026/27.

We published a detailed impact assessment alongside HM Government’s response to the second consultation on Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging. The link is available here: Packaging and packaging waste: introducing Extended Producer Responsibility - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).