Current status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has assessed the implications of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 on the Deposit Return Scheme.
The UK Internal Market Act was imposed on the rest of the UK by the UK Government, despite the refusal of consent from the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments, and poses a direct threat to Scotland’s ability to exercise devolved decision-making across a wide range of devolved policy areas including environmental policy.
We are currently analysing the text of the Act to understand how it could interact with Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme.