Asked by: Craig Williams (Conservative - Montgomeryshire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans for a vari-gauge bag, where the variation in gauge ranges from 35 to 45 microns and totals 80 microns, to be exempt from proposed charges on plastic bags; and whether she plans for vari-gauge bags with any combination of variation in gauge which totals more than 71 microns to be exempt from such charges.
Answered by Rory Stewart
There are no current plans to exempt vari-gauge bags from the single use plastic bag charge.
Asked by: Craig Williams (Conservative - Montgomeryshire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government plans to take to promote British food and drink exports.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The agri-food sector is worth over £100bn and employs one in eight people. The food and drink manufacturing sector – largest in the UK - exported nearly £19bn last year, including chocolates to Belgium, pork to China and chillies to India.
Supporting and encouraging businesses to take the opportunities that exporting presents is one of my Department’s top priorities. Officials are working with the industry and UKTI to develop a new Action Plan.