| Heading: |
Tyres: Waste Disposal |
| Question ID: |
1756599 |
| UIN: |
24646 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4089 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Tessa Munt
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Tessa Munt
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to ensure that recovered tyres exported to India are not shipped in a form which enables them to be used in batch pyrolysis plants. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-11 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
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| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
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| Answer text: |
The UK has strict controls on the export of waste to ensure that the waste is treated in an environmentally sound manner. These controls are established in UK legislation and enforced by the UK’s waste shipment competent authorities. Defra and the Environ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |