Question follow-through · 57849
Batteries: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of adopting EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 as part of the Circular Economy Strategy.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of adopting EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 as part of the Circular Economy Strategy.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jun 2025
Answer published
This Government is committed to transitioning to a circular economy. The Circular Economy Strategy will be supported by a series of roadmaps detailing the interventions that the government will make on a sector-by-sector basis, supporting government’s Mis...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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