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Electric Vehicles: Batteries

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Question for Department for Business and Trade

UIN 21715, tabled on 3 January 2025

Question

Dr Simon Opher
Labour
Stroud
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure sufficient recycling facilities are available to process end-of-life electric vehicle batteries.

Answer

Sarah Jones
Labour
Croydon West
Commons

Answered on

8 January 2025

The UK has the opportunity to boost its midstream processing and recycling of critical minerals, building on world-leading innovation and technical expertise in our chemicals and metals sectors.

We continue to work with industry via the Automotive Transformation Fund to support the creation of an internationally competitive electric vehicle supply chain in the UK including battery recycling. We will ensure continuity in HMG support, building on the announcement in the Budget of £2bn for zero emission vehicles manufacturing and their supply chains.

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