Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 18 June 2025.
Lorraine Beavers
Labour, Blackpool North and Fleetwood
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential (a) implications for his policies of the recent tax introduced in France on industrial emissions of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances into the environment and (b) merits of introducing similar measures in the UK.
Emma Hardy
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Defra continues to work closely with the other Government Departments, regulators, and the Devolved Governments to assess levels of PFAS occurring in the environment, their sources and their potential risks, in order to inform policy and regulatory approaches. Consideration of other countries’ plans can be helpful in informing the UK's management and regulation of PFAS.
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