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UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Ceramics

Commons · Question 38089 · Tabled 13 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record

Answered 18 Mar 2025

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Asked by Gareth Snell

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 36729 on UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Ceramics, whether he has made a sectoral assessment of the potential merits of exempting ceramics fro

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Answered by Sarah Jones, 18 Mar 2025

The UK Emissions Trading Scheme, whose coverage includes energy intensive industries such as those in the ceramics sector, allows installations who meet certain criteria to apply to be exempted from the main scheme by obtaining ‘small emitter’ classificat...