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...