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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her department is taking to help reduce plastic pollution.

We have several restrictions on unnecessary single-use plastic products, including a ban on the supply of single-use vapes and a ban on supply and sale of wet wipes containing plastic in England, marking a major step forward in tackling the plastic and microplastic pollution that harms our waterways.

The UK is a leading voice in the negotiations for a new international, legally binding treaty on plastic pollution and a founding member of the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution, a group of over 70 countries calling for an ambitious and effective treaty that will end plastic pollution by 2040.