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

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce the future (1) production, and (2) sale, of small electrical items; what progress has been made on the implementation of the "producer-pays" principle for such items; and what steps they are taking to increase recycling of these items, in particular those that remain unused in storage.

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.