Analysis of responses for Defra's Consultation on proposals to ban commonly littered single-use plastic items in England and Call for Evidence on Commonly Littered and Problematic Plastic Items

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On 20 November 2021, the government published a consultation on proposals to ban single-use plastic plates, cutlery, balloon sticks and expanded and extruded polystyrene food and drinks containers in England. Alongside this, Defra also published a call for evidence on commonly littered and problematic plastic items. Defra want to commission support to analyse answers received in response to these two Publications - consisting of both closed and open questions with 'free text'.

Responses need to be analysed while the consultations are live - as the responses come in. The Supplier will then have a further 4 weeks after these Publications close to finish analysing the responses and produce a final report for each publication by close of 11th March 2022. This is to ensure a government response to the Publications is published promptly.