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 ensure producers of electronic equipment fulfil the obligations of section 74(2b) of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2013.

Regulation 74(2) of these regulations seeks to ensure eco-design of products to encourage reuse. The Eco Design Regulations provides the framework that sets minimum eco-design requirements for electrical and electronic equipment. Through proposed reforms of the WEEE and batteries regulations the Government is looking to drive up levels of collection of WEEE for re-use and to build on existing requirements in relation to the removability of batteries from electrical equipment.