Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential overall cost effectiveness and environmental impact, including carbon footprint, of the process of pyrolysis of waste plastics into synthetic gas and oil within a closed system.

Pyrolysis is an advanced conversion technology (ACT). We recognise that ACT has the potential to play an important role in helping us to decarbonise. To date we have not undertaken any assessments by feedstock type and therefore do not have data on the cost effectiveness and environmental impact of the pyrolysis process of waste plastics into synthetic gas and oil.