Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when his Department plans to respond to the consultation entitled Designing a framework for transparency of carbon content in energy products: call for evidence, published on 16 August 2021.

As announced in December 2021, the Department’s work on carbon content in energy products was paused to prioritise activity related to the global increases in gas prices.

As described in the March 2023 Energy Security Plan, reform is now necessary so that the retail market drives the transition to a secure, low-cost and low-carbon energy system. A summer 2023 Call for Evidence will examine how the regulatory framework can help deliver this vision.

The Review of Electricity Market Arrangements (REMA) programme is also exploring reforms to ensure that Britain’s electricity (non-retail) market arrangements harness the benefits of cheap, abundant renewables.