Extract from
PMQs
(Aberdeen South) (SNP): Let
me be clear: we will take no lectures from a party that has not
had a mandate to govern in Scotland since 1955, that went through
three Prime Ministers in the course of just a matter of months,
that crashed the economy, that sent mortgage rates soaring and
that has taken energy support away from families most in need.
The Prime Minister has been fined by the polis not once but
twice, they take donations from Russian-backed donors and they
have stuffed the House of Lords with people like . But let us be clear: what
we are talking about is the fact that the leader of the Scottish
Conservatives believes that the people of Scotland should return
Labour party Members of Parliament to this House rather than
Scottish National party Members. So is not the message for the
people of Scotland quite clear? Don’t give the Tories what they
want.
The Prime Minister: Actually, the Scottish Conservatives deserve
enormous praise for forcing the SNP into abandoning its
completely unworkable, fundamentally flawed Deposit
return scheme. So it is good that the SNP U-turned
and listened to the voices of the Scottish Conservatives and to
business, and we look forward to working with them on delivering
something that actually works to deliver for the people of
Scotland. And that is just it, because if the SNP cannot fix the
mess that left the party in, how can
it possibly fix the mess that she left Scotland in?
Extract from
Westminster Hall debate on Litter Action Groups
(Ealing, Southall)
(Lab):...Thirdly, the introduction of a Deposit
return scheme is welcome. That will lead to less
littering. However, the failure to include glass bottles is a
problem that we can avoid, and it should be rethought. The
Government are also taking action on the consumption of nitrous
oxide, but the canisters are still a problem. It is difficult to
find anywhere to recycle them, although some scrap metal dealers
are willing to. The Government should act to ensure that these
containers are manufactured in a recyclable way...
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs ():...We also have a range of
other measures around reducing waste overall that will help to
reduce litter, such as our extended producer responsibility
scheme for packaging and the Deposit
return scheme for drinks containers. That is
particularly aimed at in-scope containers, an awful lot of which
are on-the-go products that are bought in a local shop, consumed
in the street and then chucked away. The Deposit return
scheme is really designed to help tackle that...
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