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Plastic Packaging Tax

Commons · Question 84427 · Tabled 22 Oct 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 28 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Simon Opher

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

Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 28 Oct 2025

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...