Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Government has to encourage manufacturers to recycle material recovered from fossil fuel powered vehicles to help develop (a) new and (b) existing industries; and if will he make a statement.

The End-of-Life Vehicles (Producer Responsibility) Regulations 2005 set a material reuse and recycling rate of 85% for cars and vans (to 3.5 tonnes), no matter how they are fuelled, and an overall recovery rate of 95%. Obligations to meet these targets are placed on vehicle manufacturers and the treatment chain. Latest available figures are for 2015, when rates of 87.3% and 96.9% were achieved respectively.