Tessa Munt MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Tyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to ensure that recovered tyres exported to India are not shipped in a form which enables them to be used in batch pyrolysis plants.
Answer: The UK has strict controls on the export of waste to ensure that the waste is treated in an environmentally sound manner. These controls are established in UK legislation and enforced by the UK’s waste shipment competent authorities. Defra and the Environ...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of recovered used tyres exported from the UK to India in the last 12 months.
Answer: This data is publicly available on the HMRC’s trade database which is available at https://www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data.
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is to introduce regulations to remove the T8 waste exemption on used tyres.
Answer: Removal of the T8 waste exemption is one measure among a package of possible reforms to the waste exemptions regime. This Government is currently considering priorities for waste and resources and reform of the waste exemptions regime including related to...
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his Indian counterpart on steps to ensure that recovered tyres exported to India are not used to breach Indian domestic law.
Answer: The UK has strict controls on the export of waste to ensure that the waste is treated in an environmentally sound manner. These controls are established in UK legislation and enforced by the UK’s waste shipment competent authorities. Defra and the Environ...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24642More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that recovered tyres exported from the UK to India are not exported in a form that allows them to be refitted to vehicles in India.
Answer: The UK has strict controls on the export of waste to ensure that the waste is treated in an environmentally sound manner. These controls are established in UK legislation and enforced by the UK’s waste shipment competent authorities. Defra and the Environ...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
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