Written Question·Treasury·UIN 84427
Plastic Packaging Tax
Tabled: 22 October 2025
Answered: 28 October 2025
Question
Dr Simon Opher
Labour — Stroud
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.
Answer
Dan TomlinsonThe 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...
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