Question follow-through · 83312
Aluminium: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on cooperation on aluminium scrap retention.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on cooperation on aluminium scrap retention.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2025
Answer published
To date, the Secretary of State for Business and Trade and other ministers at the Department for Business and Trade have not held discussions with EU counterparts regarding co-operation on aluminium scrap retention.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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