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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will update its calculation of the cost to households of Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging.

We published a detailed impact assessment (IA) in March 2022 alongside HM Government's response to the second consultation on Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (pEPR) in March 2021. The IA set out the anticipated costs to households of pEPR, as well as the impact pEPR may have on the Consumer Price Impact (CPI). They IA and Government Response can be found here: Packaging and packaging waste: introducing Extended Producer Responsibility - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).