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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the readiness of the chemicals sector for the 2026 UK REACH registration deadline for substances over 1,000 metric tonnes; and whether he plans to publish the outcome of the consultation on the proposed alternative model for UK REACH before that deadline.

We are aware of stakeholder concerns about the feasibility of these dates. We will provide further information in due course.