Question follow-through · 23172
Batteries: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the use of hydrometallurgical separation in the recycling of electric vehicle batteries to help facilitate the recovery of lithium.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the use of hydrometallurgical separation in the recycling of electric vehicle batteries to help facilitate the recovery of lithium.
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government seeks to encourage sustainable critical mineral production and pro-cessing. As electric vehicle batteries reach the end of their economic life, there will be an opportunity and necessity to repair, repurpose, reuse, and recycle them. The ch...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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