Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans she has to incentivise the use of scrap steel.

In 2021, the Government funded a report, undertaken by the University of Warwick, which assessed options to improve recycling rates of steel and aluminium in the UK. Following on from this, the Government has been working closely with both the steel and metals recycling sectors through an industry Scrap Working Group to gain a deeper understanding of the options available to increase availability of low-residual scrap.

Alongside this, the Government is providing funding for new metals recycling techniques though the £66m Transforming Foundation Industries programme.