Whether he has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues and the Scottish Government on an opt-out under the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 for the Scottish Government's deposit return scheme.

I am reminded of the old adage that had the Scottish National party invented the lightbulb, the Secretary of State would call it a dangerous anti-candle conspiracy. The reality is that in 1997, his party's manifesto opposed devolution. It said it would 'create strains which could well pull apart the Union' and 'would risk rivalry and conflict between these parliaments and assemblies and the parliament at Westminster.' His 2019 manifesto committed to a 'deposit return scheme to incentivise people to recycle plastic and glass.' Why is he working so hard to fulfil the vision of 1997, and not his commitment of 2019?

Let us quote from the 2019 Conservative party manifesto—in this job, reading fiction is a necessary evil. It says: “We will crack down on the waste and carelessness that destroys our natural environment and kills marine life…and introduce a deposit return scheme to incentivise people to recycle plastic and glass.” The Conservatives even put it in bold to show how serious they were. Other than a decision to oppose and undermine devolved Parliaments and Governments, what has changed from the manifesto, or are the UK Government simply bottling it?

The First Minister of Wales has now been contacted by the UK Government to make changes to the Welsh DRS scheme to remove glass, which reneges on what was previously agreed in the UK Government's consultation with the Northern Ireland Executive. The Welsh First Minister's own words are: 'The English Government is the outlier here.' Surely, instead of walking on broken glass, they could simply recycle it?