Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 23 February 2022
23 Feb 2022 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Parliamentary Bureau Motions
Our deposit return scheme will increase recycling, cut litter and help us to meet Scotland’s climate targets.
The regulations before us will make a number of changes that are essential to ensuring that Scotland’s deposit return scheme is a success. They set out a new date for full implementation, from 16 August 2023, recognising the significant impact that Covid and European Union exit has had on the businesses responsible for delivering DRS.
Additionally, the regulations make a number of small but important changes. They provide reassurance to online retailers providing a take-back service, clarify the treatment of products such as crowlers, help to prevent fraud and support the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to enforce compliance.
In the same item of business
The Presiding Officer (Alison Johnstone)
NPA
The next item of business is consideration of Parliamentary Bureau motion S6M-03303, on the approval of a Scottish statutory instrument. I ask George Adam, o...
Maurice Golden (North East Scotland) (Con)
Con
With this Scottish statutory instrument, which sets a new launch date for the deposit return scheme, the Scottish National Party and the Greens are asking in...
Rhoda Grant (Highlands and Islands) (Lab)
Lab
Does Maurice Golden agree that the Government’s mishandling of the situation has managed to unite those who previously supported the scheme and those who wer...
Maurice Golden
Con
I agree that it is a shambles that we are in a situation in which the deposit return scheme, which was agreed by the Parliament in 2011 and could easily have...
Maurice Golden
Con
I will happily give way if the Presiding Officer is content that I have the time.
Mark Ruskell
Green
If the member wants a deposit return scheme to be delivered faster, why did he and his party vote against it several years ago? Why did he vote for a delay i...
Maurice Golden
Con
I have never changed my position, but I want my questions to be answered, so I will list them. Why will the Government not at least guarantee that the rever...
The Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity (Lorna Slater)
Green
Our deposit return scheme will increase recycling, cut litter and help us to meet Scotland’s climate targets. The regulations before us will make a numbe...
Maurice Golden
Con
Will the minister take an intervention?
Lorna Slater
Green
No, I will not. One thing that the regulations do not change is the original ambitious scheme target of 80 per cent in 2024 and 90 per cent in 2025. By pass...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
The next item of business is consideration of five Parliamentary Bureau motions. I ask George Adam, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, to move motions S6...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
The question on the motions will be put at decision time.