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	date	16/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Chemicals: Recycling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will meet representatives of the chemical recycling industry.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	189961
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>We recognise the important role chemical recycling plays in driving the circular economy, which is why we have provided ReNew ELP with £4.4 million through the Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge to construct a commercial scale chemical recycling plant.</p><p> </p><p>I have met with the chemicals sector on this important topic previously and I would be pleased to meet representatives of the chemical recycling industry in the future.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 26/06/2023 11:35:39 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1645314

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Chemicals and Technology: Environment Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department plans to take to encourage investment in (a) new green technology and (b) chemical recycling.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	189962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government works with public finance institutions such as UK Infrastructure Bank, British Business Bank, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Export Credit Agency and UK Export Finance, to support investment in green technologies.</p><p> </p><p>Chemical recycling covers a range of emerging technologies that could potentially offer a complementary recycling route for plastics where mechanical recycling is impractical or uneconomic. The Government has funded innovative demonstrator projects, including on chemical recycling, through UKRI’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging programme. In April of this year HM Treasury announced plans to consult on whether and how chemically recycled content could be accounted for in the Plastics Packaging Tax using a mass balance chain of custody model.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 26/06/2023 14:02:54 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day