Question reference: S6W-14933
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 8 February 2023
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Current status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 7 March 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-07097 by Lorna Slater on 23 March 2022, and in light of the announcement by the UK Government on 20 January 2023 regarding the operation of its Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), whether it will provide an answer to the question that was asked.
Answer
The Scottish Parliament approved the Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Regulations in 2020. The Regulations are wholly within devolved competence.
The Scottish Government has been following the agreed process to seek the exclusion of the DRS regulations from the Internal Market Act. This has been the subject of discussion with the UK Government beginning in 2021 when we sought a broad exclusion under the Resources and Waste common framework when an exclusion was agreed covering Scotland’s single use plastic regulations. We will continue to press the UK Government for a decision as soon as possible to give businesses the clarity they need.