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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the compliance of companies selling disposable e-cigarettes with the waste electrical and electronic equipment producer scheme; and whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure that those companies are fully compliant with that scheme.

The Environment Agency has the responsibility in England for compliance monitoring registered producers under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) regulations and for investigating and enforcing against producers that do not register. This work is prioritised using a risk-based approach and in line with the Environment Agency’s Enforcement and Sanctions Policy. Defra and the Environment Agency liaise closely on the operation of the current WEEE regulations and Defra will consider that feedback in our forthcoming consultation on the WEEE regulations later this year.