Oral answer to question provided on Wednesday, 7 September 2011 in the House of Lords, by Lord Henley (Conservative).

Environment: Litter and Waste

Answer: My Lords, I have not always been the greatest fan of devolution but one of its great advantages is that we can profit from lessons learnt in other countries. We will certainly look carefully at what they are doing in Wales and keep an eye on that. The noble Baroness is quite right to talk about what she referred to as ““good, old-fashioned shopping bags”” or the bags made available by supermarkets at a cost to encourage reuse of them. Often the problem with those is that one ends up buying too many. I have a very large stack of those bags at home waiting to be reused.

This is an answer to the Oral question asked on Wednesday, 7 September 2011 by Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (Crossbench).

Question: My Lords, are the Government giving consideration to the decision taken by the Welsh Government to charge for plastic bags from 1 October, to encourage the reuse of bags and of good old-fashioned shopping bags?

Secondary information

Type: Oral answer to question
Reference: 730 c274
Session: 2010-12
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Subjects: Biodegradability Labelling Litter Standards Waste disposal Street cleaning Plastic bags
Link: View this Oral answer to question on www.publications.parliament.uk