Question follow-through · 39563
Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of adopting minimum recycled content requirements for (a) new infrastructure projects and (b) finished steels.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of adopting minimum recycled content requirements for (a) new infrastructure projects and (b) finished steels.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government works with the Green Construction Board, part of the Construction Leadership Council, to reduce levels of waste within the industry, increase recycling, and support the transition to a circular economy. The Green Construction Board publishe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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