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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's expected timescale is for (a) opening and (b) closing its consultation into banning plastic in wet wipes; and who will be invited to submit views.

In the Plan for Water published in April, the Government announced our intention to ban wet wipes containing plastic, subject to public consultation, the details of which will be available in due course.