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

This opportunity is advertised by Defra group Commercial on behalf of Defra.

Defra is responsible for improving and protecting the environment. Defra aims to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities. We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries. For further information please visit About us - Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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, we also published a call for evidence on commonly littered and problematic plastic items. We want to commission support to analyse answers received in response to both 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 successful bidder 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.

Additional information:

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