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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the level of carbon emissions from the steelworks in (a) Scunthorpe and (b) Port Talbot.

The Government holds carbon emissions data as part of the UK Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). However, ETS emissions are not necessarily the emissions for a whole site – they only cover the site’s activities which are regulated under the ETS. The Government does not hold data on any non-ETS emissions. ETS emissions data at site level are public information and can be found in the UK ETS Registry data website, in the “Compliance Reports” section.

The UK ETS data for the Scunthorpe and Port Talbot steelworks is:

a) The verified emissions in 2021 for Scunthorpe Integrated Iron & Steel Works site were 4,679,901 tonnes CO2e.

b) The verified emissions in 2021 for Port Talbot Steelworks site were 6,643,839 tonnes CO2e.