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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking with the devolved Administrations to provide for a consistent household recycling and waste collection process throughout the UK.

Environment policy is devolved. However, Northern Ireland wants similar arrangements to England which is why it has clauses in the Environment Bill which was introduced in Parliament on 15 October https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2019-2020/0003/20003.pdf.

The measures in the Bill mean that all the UK nations will have similar requirements for the collection of recycling materials.

This will help the UK as a whole move to higher levels of recycling and less waste to landfill.