Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress his Department has made on bringing forward a deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement.
A second consultation on introducing a deposit return scheme (DRS) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland was published earlier this year and is now closed. Government is analysing the responses to that consultation, with a view to publishing a government response in due course.