questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress the Government has made towards establishing a deposit return scheme framework that is consistent across the devolved nations in line with the provisions of the (a) Resources and waste: provisional common framework and (b) Internal Market Act 2020.
answerText: In May 2023, UK Government published a position statement setting out that DRS’s across the UK should be interoperable to reduce complexity for businesses and consumers, and to avoid unnecessary barriers to trade. Defra is working closely with devolved ad...
heading: Deposit Return Schemes: Devolution