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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of requiring produce compliance schemes for fridges and freezers that lack sufficient processing capacity to identify and utilise suitable storage sites.

Defra is working with stakeholders to monitor the situation and support industry to develop solutions.

The Environment Agency has published a Regulatory Position Statement (RPS) to allow temporary storage. Producer Compliance Schemes should work with councils and treatment facilities to identify appropriate sites and come to arrangements over the costs.