Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she is taking to reduce carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2025.

The Government is committed to meeting its targets for carbon emission reductions. The steps we are taking to achieve these targets include:

• helping consumers and businesses to save money on their energy bills;

• making buildings more energy efficient;

• helping consumers to take control of their energy use with smart meters, and

• decarbonising the power sector in the most cost effective way.

We will shortly be publishing our response on the Committee on Climate Change’s Annual Progress Report. This will outline in more detail the steps we are taking. In addition, we will bring forward further proposals on how we plan to meet our carbon targets over the course of next year.