Oral Answers to Questions

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering Excerpts

Thursday 16th December 2010 Commons Chamber

[Gregory Barker]

We will announce a robust way forward in the new year that will require a clear route map on how companies are required to report their carbon emissions, as they are required to do by the Climate Change Act 2008.

[Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton) (Con)]

Will my hon. Friend ensure that, through the carbon reporting mechanism, the good work that water companies and others are doing by creating carbon sinks in peat bogs and water storage upstream is more widely known so that we can support it? One example of that is the Pickering pilot project in North Yorkshire, which also brings flood alleviation benefits.