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Mark Prisk named as new “WEEE Minister”

Mark Prisk has been confirmed as the minister with responsibility for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment at the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS). The news came after the coalition Government announced that the department will have to find £836 million of savings in 2010/11, as part of wider plans to cut the national deficit.

Mark Prisk is the Conservative MP for Hertford and Stortford and has been given a portfolio which covers several business sectors including WEEE. Mr Prisk will work under Liberal Democrat Vince Cable, who was appointed secretary of state for business on 12th May. Mr Prisk's WEEE-related priorities in his first few months in the post are likely to include overseeing the UK's role in European negotiations over the recast of the WEEE Directive - a process that could see Producers facing, for the first time, collection targets for non-household WEEE.