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1701164

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will meet Ebenezer Akore Yeboah of Coventry University to discuss single-use plastics, sorting waste and reducing power consumption.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	21842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>In December 2018, the UK Government published its Resources and Waste Strategy. This sets out how we will achieve a circular economy for plastic and achieve our ambition to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste by 2042. Our goal is to maximise resource efficiency and minimise waste (including plastic) - by following the principles of the waste hierarchy: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. To help us achieve this goal, in October 2023, Defra banned the supply of single-use plastic plates, bowls, and trays to the end-user and banned the supply of single-use plastic cutlery and expanded and foamed extruded polystyrene food and drinks containers, including cups. We will continue to review the latest evidence on problematic products and/ or materials to take a systematic approach to reducing the use of unnecessary single-use plastic products.</p><p>We are preparing for the fourth round of negotiations in April, to develop a new legally binding UN treaty to end plastic pollution. As a founding member of the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution, the UK is pushing for an ambitious and effective UN Treaty to address the problem of plastic waste globally.</p><p>I will ask my officials to write to Mr Akore Yeboah to discuss this matter further.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 23/04/2024 15:36:21 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1686753

registered interest
date	01/02/2024
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the Fifth Report of Session 2023-24 of the Committee of Public Accounts entitled Government’s programme of waste reforms.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	12667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2024 answer text <p>Based on a report by the National Audit Office, the Public Accounts Committee took evidence from Defra on 11 September 2023. The Committee published its report on 1 December 2023. The Fifth Report of Session 2023-24 of the Committee entitled 'Government's Programme of Waste Reforms' is the Government’s response to the recommendations in the Committee’s report. The Fifth Report of Session 2023-24 will be returned to Treasury Officers of Accounts on 7 February 2024 and published on 15 February 2024.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 14/02/2024 17:45:00 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1679139

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled Waste collection services: guidance for local authorities, published on 23 July 2021, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing statutory guidance for local authorities on sorting waste materials.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	7637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>We recently consulted on the content of the statutory guidance for Simpler Recycling. We will publish our final statutory guidance once the regulations relating to Simpler Recycling have been made.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 08/01/2024 15:06:23 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1674598

registered interest
date	01/12/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish proposals for refill/reuse obligations as part of the Government’s waste and resource strategy.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	4859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>The introduction of Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging, as part of the Collection and Packaging reforms, will move the full cost of dealing with packaging waste generated by households from local taxpayers and councils to businesses that handle and use packaging (applying the ‘polluter-pays principle’). This will encourage businesses to think carefully about how much packaging they use and how easy it is to recycle. It will also encourage use of refillable and reusable packaging which will have a great role to play in driving down unnecessary waste.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with WRAP to identify and analyse measures that could be used to encourage greater use of refillable and reuseable packaging. We remain committed to introducing refill/reuse obligations and will bring forward our proposals shortly.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 11/12/2023 16:37:19 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1665283

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her planned timescale is for publishing the Waste Infrastructure Roadmap; and if she will make an assessment of the level of existing waste infrastructure required to meet the Government's target to halve residual waste by 2042.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	203119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>The first element of the Waste Infrastructure Roadmap will be published before the end of this year and will set out anticipated waste arisings to 2035, reflecting Defra’s Collection and Packaging Reforms (Simpler Recycling, Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging and a Deposit Return Scheme for drinks containers), mapping this modelling against known waste management infrastructure for various waste streams, including organic wastes, dry recyclables (paper/card, glass, textiles, metals, and plastics) and residual waste.</p><p>Once published, the intention of the first element of the Waste Infrastructure Roadmap is to provide a signal to investors as to where there is considered to be a likely over or under-provision of waste management capacity so as to target investment. The first element of the Waste Infrastructure Roadmap will not detail where or how investment should be made but is meant to be a tool to support investors and local authorities in decision making.</p><p>Those looking to invest in waste management infrastructure are encouraged to engage with the UK Infrastructure Bank.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 20/10/2023 14:00:03 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1656522

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the speed of reforms to the (a) packaging waste recycling note and (b) packaging waste export recycling note systems.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Patricia Gibson
uin	196349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government Response to both the consultation on extended producer responsibility for packaging published in March 2022 and the consultation on reforms to the Packaging Waste Recycling Note (PRN) and Packaging Waste Export Recycling Note (PERN) System published in October 2022 set out a number of measures to improve the operation of the system. These included enhanced reporting requirements for accredited reprocessors and exporters, the introduction of an operator competence (‘fit and proper person’) test and additional requirements on exporters to evidence that packaging has been received at overseas reprocessing sites and recycled. These reforms will be introduced in our new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulations, which currently are out for consultation. The Government will keep the operation of the system under review and consider other measures as necessary to ensure its effective operation.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 06/09/2023 12:26:55 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4435 label Biography information for Patricia Gibson

1652378

registered interest
date	12/07/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's oversight of the waste industry.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	193725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>Defra’s Resources and Waste Strategy sets two overarching objectives: to maximise the value of resource use; and to minimise waste and its impact on the environment. The waste industry is a key partner in helping deliver those two objectives and we work closely and constructively with it.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 193723 question first answered 21/07/2023 09:14:21 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1628805

registered interest
date	18/05/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the policy paper entitled Greening Government Commitments 2021 to 2025, published on 15 December 2022, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of including (a) reuse options in the recycling target, or (b) a separate reuse target in section B: Minimising waste and promoting resource efficiency.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	185756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2023 answer text <p>In the Greening Government Commitments 2021 to 2025 framework, government asked departments to report on the introduction and implementation of reuse schemes for the first time. This will allow us to see how they are being implemented across government and how they fit into the waste landscape.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 23/05/2023 12:01:17 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1602581

registered interest
date	08/03/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what engagement they have had with the organic recycling industry, including members of Compostable Coalition UK and the Association For Renewable Energy and Clean Technology, to inform the development of their waste management strategy for England.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL6268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>In 2019, we ran a call for evidence on the need for standards for bio-based, biodegradable, and compostable plastics, to which stakeholders were invited to contribute.</p><p> </p><p>Special Advisers also recently met with members of the Compostable Coalition on 1 March 2023.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon grouped question UIN HL6270 question first answered 16/03/2023 15:52:09 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1587494

registered interest
date	20/02/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the Waste prevention programme for England 2021.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	148852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on a range of issues, and Cabinet discussions are considered confidential. However, since consulting in 2021 my officials have been working with their counterparts in other Departments, particularly the Department for Energy and Net Zero and the Department for Business and Trade, to finalise the new programme, now called ‘Maximising Resources, Minimising Waste’. This will be considerably shorter than the document consulted on to make it easier to read and navigate, but it will set out priorities for action to manage resources and waste in accordance with the waste hierarchy. We plan to publish the new programme in the first part of this year.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 27/02/2023 14:18:36 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones