Written questions

Carbon Emissions: UK Trade with EU

Commons · Question 36328 · Tabled 6 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 14 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Maguire

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support small businesses to meet the carbon reporting requirements of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

Answer

Answered by Douglas Alexander, 14 Mar 2025

We recognise that reporting requirements of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) are having incidental impacts on some UK businesses exporting to the EU.EU CBAM implementation and guidance remains fundamentally a matter for the European Commis...