Question follow-through · 84427
Plastic Packaging Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to increase the (a) Plastic Packaging Tax rate and (b) recycled content requirement to promote domestic recycling.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to increase the (a) Plastic Packaging Tax rate and (b) recycled content requirement to promote domestic recycling.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Plastic Packaging Tax was introduced in April 2022 under the previous government and provides a price incentive for businesses to use recycled plastic in the manufacture of plastic packaging – thereby stimulating the collection and recycling of plasti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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