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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to meet new international climate change targets of net zero emissions.

We will seek the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) advice on the implications of the Paris Agreement for the UK’s long-term targets, after the release of the IPCC Special Report later this year. We will consider the CCC’s advice carefully when it is received.