Question follow-through · 72888
Carbon Emissions: Imports
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that the UK’s Carbon Border Adjustment does not adversely impact business competitiveness.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that the UK’s Carbon Border Adjustment does not adversely impact business competitiveness.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2025
Answer published
The UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will give UK industry confidence to invest in their decarbonisation efforts. The CBAM will ensure highly traded, carbon intensive products from overseas face a comparable carbon price to those produced here...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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