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To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to run an advertising campaign to reduce packaging waste; and if she will make a statement. - (Holding answer 18 December 2001).

Asked by

Paul Keetch (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

377 c478W; 23817

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper Dep 01/1731

Deposited by

Food Standards Agency

Type

Consultation papers; Impact assessments; Deposited papers

Date

17 December 2001

Reference

Dep 01/1731

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will achieve the Packaging Waste Recovery and Recycling Targets for 2001.

Asked by

Jonathan Sayeed (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 December 2001

Reference

377 c125W; 22593

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research is being carried out into the medical impact of aluminium on the human body (a) via its use as a food packaging material and (b) in terms of its presence in drinking water. - Includes ref to the National Research...

Asked by

Ashok Kumar (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

26 November 2001

For answer on

12 December 2001

Answered on

12 December 2001

Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research is being carried out into the medical impact of aluminium on the human body (a) via its use as a food packaging material and (b) in terms of its presence in drinking water. [19077] Ms Blears: The most recently published study by the Food Standards Agency showed that exposures of United Kingdom consumers to aluminium from the typical diet in the UK were well within the provisional tolerable weekly intake (PTWI) established for aluminium in 1989 by the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives, even for those eating above-average amounts of food. Although general exposures from the diet are low, the Food Standards Agency currently has four research projects to test if there is migration of aluminium into food from, respectively, glazed ceramic ware, paper and board, kitchen ware and glass. Aluminium in drinking-water is a minor contributor to oral intakes of aluminium in UK consumers. A wide range of types of research contributes to scientific understanding of the effects of aluminium in humans. There is no comprehensive national or international database of current research on aluminium. The most relevant studies listed in the National Research Register concern the role of aluminium in dementia, clinico-pathological correlates of dementia in Down's syndrome (including aluminium absorption), possible protective effects of selenium and magnesium on the toxicity of aluminium, and a clinical trial of immunotherapy with aluminium hydroxide. The National Research Register is a database of on-going and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's national health service, and is available at http://www.doh.gov.uk/research/nrr.htm. In addition, the Department and the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly health authority are funding continuing studies of health outcomes in relation to the Lowermoor water pollution incident of 1988, in which the principal pollutant was aluminium sulphate at very high concentrations.

Date

12 December 2001

Reference

19077; 376 c930-1W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made in encouraging companies to reduce packaging.

Asked by

Ashok Kumar (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

3 December 2001

Reference

376 c97-8W;376 c98W; 19054

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the timetable to publish the implementation of European Commission packaging directives.

Asked by

Ashok Kumar (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

3 December 2001

Reference

19050; 376 c98W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received from the pharmaceutical industry about compliance with the Labels and Leaflets Directive (Directive 92/27/EEC); what steps his Department takes to ensure that patients receive the information required by the Labels and Leaflets Directive (Directive 92/27EEC) when...

Asked by

Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

3 December 2001

Reference

376 c125-6W;376 c126W; 15659;15657;15660;15658;18392

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on proposed EU plans to prohibit the recycling of milk bottles.

Asked by

Jonathan Sayeed (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

26 October 2001

Reference

9073; 373 c413-4W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures are being taken to encourage the collection and recycling of waste plastic. - Inc figures. (Holding answer 22 October 2001).

Asked by

Colin Pickthall (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

15 October 2001

For answer on

25 October 2001

Answered on

25 October 2001

Mr. Pickthall: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what measures are being taken to encourage the collection and recycling of waste plastic. [8504] Mr. Meacher: [holding answer 22 October 2001]: The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997 place obligations on certain businesses to recover and recycle specific tonnages of packaging waste, including plastic. The recovery and recycling targets for 2001 under the packaging regulations are 56 per cent. for recovery and 18 per cent. for material-specific recycling of packaging waste. We are currently consulting on recovery and recycling targets for packaging waste in 2002. All local authorities have been set statutory recycling performance standards, to underpin the national targets established in the Waste Strategy 2000 for England and Wales, of recycling or composting at least 25 per cent. of household waste by 2005. Future standards will be considered in the light of technological advances, with the aim of maximising the recycling and composting of waste. It is for local authorities to decide which waste streams they should tackle in meeting their performance standard. The Government have also established the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to promote more sustainable waste management through tackling the barriers to increased reuse and recycling. WRAP has identified plastics as a priority area in its business plan to 2003-04. One of WRAP's priorities is marketing existing recycled plastic products and removing discriminatory standards. These are linked to the development of `buy recycled' policies and a research and development programme to develop plastics recycling technology and support composite product development. One of WRAP's aims is to achieve a 20,000 tonne increase in the mixed plastics processing for industrial products by 2003-04.

Date

25 October 2001

Reference

8504; 373 c361W;373 c361-2W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the implications of the EU Packaging Waste Directive for doorstep milk deliveries and the use of milk bottles.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 October 2001

Reference

8338; 373 c176W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, If she will make a statement on the United Kingdom targets for packaging recycling. (Failed OPQ)

Asked by

Win Griffiths (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 October 2001

Reference

4691; 372 c1268-9W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Supplementary on reducing household waste put into landfill and need to reduce packaging.

Asked by

Bill O'Brien (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

18 October 2001

Reference

372 c1285

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answered by

Baroness Beckett (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

18 October 2001

Reference

372 c1285

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper Dep 01/1439

Deposited by

Health and Safety Commission

Type

Deposited papers

Date

18 October 2001

Reference

Dep 01/1439

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper Dep 01/1373

Deposited by

Health and Safety Commission

Type

Consultation papers; Deposited papers

Date

17 October 2001

Reference

Dep 01/1373

House

House of Commons

Whitty, Lord

What is their estimate of the volume of plastic which becomes waste each year; what proportion of this is recycled; and what consideration is being given to securing an increase in this proportion. [HL 185]. - Includes table and ref to: www.wrap.org.uk.

Asked by

Lord Hardy of Wath (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

16 July 2001

Reference

HL 185; 626 c96-7WA

House

House of Lords

Dept of Trade and Industry

Answered by

Melanie Johnson (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

12 July 2001

Reference

371 c920-1

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

Answered by

Melanie Johnson (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

12 July 2001

Reference

371 c920

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

1st supplementary on same.

Asked by

Bob Russell (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

12 July 2001

Reference

371 c920

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

Supplementary on packaging waste.

Asked by

Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

12 July 2001

Reference

371 c921

House

House of Commons

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