{"id":223615,"date":"2025-10-24T23:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/223615\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T23:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:11:06","slug":"lorna-slater-claims-no-reason-to-expect-uk-to-block-recycling-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/223615\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorna Slater claims &#8216;no reason&#8217; to expect UK to block recycling scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scottish government has sought to play down the significance of the letter, and says the firm understood there were risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It points to the fact Biffa had taken out a \u00a320m insurance policy against any delay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both then first minister Humza Yousaf and Slater accused Lord Jack of &#8220;sabotaging&#8221; the scheme when it collapsed in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lord Jack said the Scottish government should have asked for an exclusion from the Internal Market Act a year earlier when it was clear it was needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t understand why they made such a hash of it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The first minister had written letters, the minister for circular economy too, encouraging stakeholders to make financial commitments when they didn&#8217;t have a viable scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Divergence was very clear from a very early stage. My responsibility was to protect free trade, consumers and business who were very concerned about this in relation to the economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lord Jack said he was worried about &#8220;massive inflation&#8221; &#8211; more than 1,000 firms had written to him to voice concerns<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wanted answers to these questions that were going to hit the economy, hit consumers and hit the least well off,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scottish government has sought to play down the significance of the letter, and says the firm understood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-223615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}