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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 7 June 2023 to Question 187143 on Deposit Return Schemes: Glass, whether her Department plans to give (a) glass and (b) PET bottles the same recycling target under the Extended Producer Responsibility as the 90 per cent target given to other materials under the proposed Deposit Return Scheme in England and Northern Ireland.

We are working on the recycling targets for each packaging material as part of work to finalise our plans for Extended Producer Responsibility. The individual recycling targets for each material will be set to achieve our environmental ambitions taking into account the specific issues and challenges associated with each material.