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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government plans to continue cooperation with the EU 2030 Climate and Energy Framework after the UK has left the EU.

In November 2016, the European Commission published the Clean Energy Package, a series of legislative proposals that will implement the 2030 framework and set the course of EU energy policy for the next decade. The UK continues to participate actively and effectively in the negotiation of this legislation to ensure that it supports our domestic climate and energy objectives as set out in the Clean Growth Strategy.

I have been clear that the UK’s ambition is to ensure continued efficient energy trading with the EU to underpin a new era of cooperation and partnership on energy and climate change.