Food: Packaging

Summary

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cumulative financial impact on food and drinks businesses of (1) the extended producer responsibility for packaging, (2) the plastic packaging tax, and (3) the packaging recovery note s

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1. 18 May 2026

   Written question

   To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cumulative financial impact on food and drinks businesses of (1) the extended producer responsibility for packaging, (2) the plastic packaging tax, and (3) the packaging recovery note s

   Source: Lords

2. 1 June 2026

   Answer

   In autumn 2024, the Government published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (pEPR). This assessed impacts on packaging producers as a whole but was not sector specific. The impact of the intro...

   Source: Written answer

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