Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s Progress

Debate between Ed Davey and Mary Creagh

Thursday 28th February 2019 Commons Chamber

[Mary Creagh (Wakefield) (Lab)]

Does the hon. Lady regret that in government the Liberal Democrats oversaw the scrapping of the Department of Energy and Climate Change—

[Sir Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton) (LD)]

No, we didn’t.

[Mary Creagh]

I thought they did, but perhaps I am wrong. It was a machinery of government change. I am happy to be corrected if that is not the case. [Interruption.] It was subsumed into the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. But we also saw the end of the green new deal and of the energy efficiency standards in homes, which means we have a carbon lag that will be more difficult—[Interruption.]