Carbon Emissions: Taxation
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what total revenue accrued to the Exchequer from (a) the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, (b) carbon taxes, (c) related environmental levies and (d) other carbon pricing mechanisms, in the latest year for which figures are available.
Answered by Lucy Rigby
2024-25 receipts for the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, Carbon Price Support, Climate Change Levy, and relevant environmental taxes (including Aggregates Levy, Landfill Tax, Plastic Packaging Tax and Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility) can be found at Annex A of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s March 2026 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
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