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Tyres: Waste Disposal

Asked by Tessa MuntLiberal DemocratDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 13 April 2026UIN 124085

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, further to her response to Question UIN 106503 on 22nd January 2026, whether the regulations to remove the T8 exemption for the treatment of waste tyres have now been drafted and if she will provide an update on her timetable for laying those regulations.

Answered by Mary Creagh

Work continues on the drafting of the legislation which covers the whole package of waste exemption reforms, including the removal of the T8 exemption, and the timing remains subject to Parliamentary time. When the Regulations come into force the published transition periods will begin. For the T8 exemption this is 3 months.

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