Dec 9th, 2024
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On the 19th November the Welsh Government announced that it will not be part of the four-nation approach to the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), proceeding with its own scheme instead.
The written statement from the Welsh Government states that it “in the time available it has not been possible to address the issues to the operation of devolution caused by the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020, inherited by the UK Government from the previous administration. This unfortunately means that we are not able to proceed with the joint process or notify the WTO in relation to the scheme at this point”.
After Wales’s withdrawal from a UK-wide deposit return scheme, the UK Government has said it is fully committed to launching a scheme aligned across England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. You can read the Defra announcement here
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