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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the role of SMEs in meeting the UK's net zero targets.

Business and industry account for 25% of UK territorial emissions and SMEs alone account for around 50% of business energy use. This makes the Government’s efforts to support SMEs to reduce their emissions crucial to meeting the UK’s net zero target. The Government is continuing to support UK businesses to meet their net zero commitments via the UK Business Climate Hub. Small UK businesses are encouraged to join the UN’s ‘Race to Zero’ initiative – a global effort to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we all generate to zero by 2050. More than 3,782 UK small businesses have joined this initiative.