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HANSARD Glass Packaging: Extended Producer ResponsibilityI will give time at the end but I want to make some progress. The annual growth rate of circular industries is 3%, more than double the UK’s overall growth rate of 1.2%. Extended…14 May 2025HANSARD Glass Packaging: Extended Producer ResponsibilityI am going to make some headway. DRSs cut litter, boost recycling rates to more than 90% and create high-quality materials that industry can reuse. Since it launched in 2024, the…14 May 2025HANSARD Glass Packaging: Extended Producer ResponsibilityLet me finish my point; I have not made it yet. The fewer that do not report and pay on their packaging, the lower the fees will be for everybody. That point was raised by my hon.…14 May 2025HANSARD Glass Packaging: Extended Producer ResponsibilityThat number will be published by the end of June and businesses are aware of that timescale.14 May 2025HANSARD Glass Packaging: Extended Producer ResponsibilityHe did. Greene King, of Bury St Edmunds, has already started using reusable glass bottles in 65 pubs served by its Runcorn depot. It has collected over half a million bottles…14 May 2025HANSARDFly-tippingI congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on weaving in a farms question on fly-tipping, but he is right— [Interruption.] Calm down.08 May 2025HANSARDSurrey Hills National LandscapeOn this 80th anniversary of VE Day, I pay tribute to the city of Coventry, which suffered so grievously in the blitz. The commemoration was marked at the old and new cathedrals…08 May 2025HANSARDSurrey Hills National LandscapeI am always happy to meet the right hon. Gentleman. This and the Yorkshire wolds are under active consideration, as I am sure he is aware. There is a legal process to be followed…08 May 2025HANSARDFly-tippingUnder the previous Government, fly-tipping skyrocketed by 20%, leaving communities buried under an avalanche of rubbish. This Government are clearing up their mess, tackling the…08 May 2025HANSARDFly-tippingI am sorry to hear that the SNP Government are not taking firm action, but perhaps where we have led the way, they would like to follow. I congratulate West Lothian Litter Pickers…08 May 2025HANSARDFly-tippingThank you, Mr Speaker. We know that fly-tipping is a very big problem for farmers. I have visited fly-tipping sites near Watford in the last month and spoken to farmers about what…08 May 2025HANSARDGlobal DeforestationIt is an honour to serve under your chairship, Mr Vickers. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Brent West (Barry Gardiner) on securing this debate on such an important…30 Apr 2025HANSARDGlobal DeforestationIs it the Plate?30 Apr 2025HANSARDGlobal DeforestationI am afraid I have absolutely no idea; I will have to write to my hon. Friend. That is genuinely not my area. We welcome the positive conclusions to the COP in Rome. The key…30 Apr 2025HANSARDGlobal DeforestationI am coming to that. Legislation complements the measures I have described. The UK timber regs aim to eliminate demand for illegally harvested timber, and the EU’s timber…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Recycling of TyresWe can never spend enough time in Wiltshire, Dr Murrison, so we will see what we can do. On the T8 exemption, we need to ensure that the UK’s house is in good order. The impact…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Recycling of TyresIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. What a joy it is to be back in Westminster Hall to discuss everybody’s favourite subjects: the materials economy,…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Recycling of TyresWe are not the regulator; it is for the Environment Agency, as the regulator, to do those prosecutions.29 Apr 2025HANSARD Recycling of TyresI do indeed. The amount of money and resources allocated to tackling environmental crime was steadily reduced over the term of the previous Government. There has been a sense that…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Recycling of TyresCan I just finish this point? The EA is independent. It is important that we do not prejudice the ongoing review. My understanding from officials is that it will report at the end…29 Apr 2025