Packaging Manufacturing Industry APPG
First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 10/03/2021
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To create a better understanding of the UK packaging manufacturing industry and its products; to address issues facing the industry from regulation; and to promote the UK as a centre of excellence for packaging manufacture.
1. Food and Drink Federation - written evidence
12/06/2019 - Inquiry: Plastic food and drink packaging - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
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Found: voice of the UK food and drink industry – the UK’s largest manufacturing sector. FDF represents and advises
2. Society for Applied Microbiology - written evidence
09/09/2019 - Inquiry: Plastic food and drink packaging - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
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Found: Committee’s inquiry into plastic food and drink packaging. Members of the public are becoming increasingly
3. Dr Christian Reynolds - written evidence
08/05/2019 - Inquiry: Plastic food and drink packaging - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
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Found: reducing food waste and packaging waste. The use of plastic packaging (along with packaging innovations and changes
4. Manufacturing and importing tobacco products
20/05/2019 - HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
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Found:
Manufacturing and importing tobacco products - GOV.UK
5. Packaging Manufacturing Industry
30/07/2015 - APPGs
Found: the UK packaging manufacturing industry and its products; to address issues facing the industry from regulation;
1. Plastics Recycling
23/04/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: speech thus far. Picking up on that point on manufacturing, will he join me in congratulating Capital Valley - Speech Link
2: group for the packaging manufacturing industry. We have already spoken about manufacturing. Manufacturers - Speech Link
3: the debate—is that there need to be changes to packaging waste regulations. Does the right hon. Gentleman - Speech Link
2. Non-recyclable and Non-compostable Packaging
23/01/2017 - Westminster Hall
1: banning of non-recyclable and non-compostable packaging.It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship - Speech Link
3. Oral Answers to Questions
05/03/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: assure me that our strategically important fishing industry and processing sectors will be fully considered - Speech Link
2: elements are at the centre of the electronics industry which now defines our modern life. Some of the - Speech Link
3: mentioned earlier is focused on applied research and industry innovation and the commercialisation of the UK’s - Speech Link
4. Oral Answers to Questions
30/04/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: this country, can benefit from some of the manufacturing opportunities that we have talked about. As - Speech Link
2: of State’s industrial strategy states that manufacturing is crucial to the economy and promises to support - Speech Link
3: and I have a joint view on the importance of manufacturing, not least in the north-east. I hope that she - Speech Link
5. Environmental Protection (Plastic Straws, Cotton Buds and Stirrers) (England) Regulations 2020
10/07/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: were delayed to reduce the burden being placed on industry and to avoid adding further demands on local authorities - Speech Link
2: holistic view of the wider pressures faced by industry at this time, along with the attendant risks, - Speech Link
3: When will they bring forward plans to ban mixed packaging, which seems a particularly disgraceful waste - Speech Link
asked by: Lord Empey
31/03/2021
...To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the financial support they provided to the aerospace sector during the COVID-19 pandemic was allocated to aerospace manufacturers in the UK. 2. Packaging
asked by: Stuart Anderson
15/09/2020
... what financial support is available to encourage businesses to manufacture environmentally friendly product packaging. 3. Packaging
asked by: Jim Shannon
07/05/2019
... what steps he is taking to encourage online businesses to use environmentally friendly packaging. 4. Packaging
asked by: Anna McMorrin
12/03/2018
... what steps his Department is taking to incentivise the adoption by manufacturers of packaging of environmentally friendly designs. 5. Packaging
asked by: Tonia Antoniazzi
19/10/2017
... what steps his Department is taking to reduce the use of non-recyclable plastics and other packaging in the UK.
5 Current APPG Officers
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District Councils , Funerals and Bereavement , Housing and Planning , Manufacturing , Microplastics , Motorcycle Speedway , Professional Sales , Rugby Union Football Club , Rwanda , Tidy Britain , Vaping
Bingo , Britiish Offshore Oil and Gas Industry , Coastal Communities , County , East of England , Energy Costs , Fair Fuel for UK Motorists and UK Hauliers , Fire Safety and Rescue , Fisheries , Flood Prevention , Food Banks , Further Education and Lifelong Learning , Further Education and Lifelong Learning , Holiday Parks and Campsites , Housing and Care for Older People , Housing and Social Mobility , Hydrogen , Intelligent Energy , Nuclear Energy , Park Homes , Renewable and Sustainable Energy , Sixth Form Education , Speech and Language Difficulties , State Pension Inequality for Women , Town Centres , Universal Credit
Antisemitism , Climate Change , Electric Vehicles , France , Future Generations , International Conservation , Internet, Communications and Technology , Net Zero , Post-Brexit Funding for Nations, Regions and Local Areas , United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development , Western Gateway
Afghanistan , Fair Business Banking , Food Banks , Parental Participation in Education , Terminal Illness
Gambling Related Harm , Online and Home Electrical Safety , Parkrun , Wales in the World
Contact Details
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Mark Pawsey MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 7136.
Email: mark.pawsey.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Dick Searle, The Packaging Federation, Audley House, 13 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HX. Tel: 020 7808 7217
No benefits in kind are on record for the Packaging Manufacturing Industry APPG
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Packaging Manufacturing Industry APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Ian C. Lucas
Treasurer
Labour - Former Member for Wrexham
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
John Pugh
Secretary
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Southport
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
Cancer , Cuba , Greyhound , Housing in the North , Human-Relevant Science , Learning Disability , Mexico , Racing and Bloodstock , Radiotherapy , Scottish Sport , Transport Across the North , Western Sahara
Heather Wheeler
Vice Chair
Conservative - South Derbyshire
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 12th October 2016