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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 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, whether she plans to encourage investment in (a) chemical recycling and (b) other new green technology.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	189966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <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 UK Research and Innovation’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><p> </p><p>The Government works with public finance institutions such as UK Infrastructure Bank, British Business Bank, UK Research and Innovation, Export Credit Agency and UK Export Finance, to support investment in green technologies.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 26/06/2023 11:27:22 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1645330

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	Foreign Investment in UK: Recycling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the review into the Government’s approach to attracting foreign direct investment led by Lord Harrington of Watford will consider the Government’s approach to attracting new foreign direct investment into recycling infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	189969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>Lord Harrington’s review into attracting foreign direct investment is primarily, though not exclusively, focused on the Chancellor’s five key growth sectors. One of the key growth sectors is Green Industries, and the review will consider actions to improve investment across Green Industries, including recycling infrastructure.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 26/06/2023 11:50:23 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse