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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of including glass in the Deposit Return Scheme.

HM Government has consulted twice on the introduction of a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) and given careful consideration to the materials that should be part of the scheme. We set out in the Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (EPR) consultation response in March 2022 that glass would not be part of the DRS in England, instead part of Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging.

We will continue to work with industry and the Devolved Administrations as we finalise policy positions and secondary legislation in order to support delivery of an efficient and effective DRS.