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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2018 to Question 170860, whether she has requested an assessment of the effect on the extractive industries of reductions in emissions targets as part of his Department's advice to the Committee on Climate Change.

In our commission for advice on the implications of the Paris Agreement for the UK’s long-term targets, we have asked the Committee on Climate Change to provide evidence on how further reductions in our emissions might be delivered across all sectors of the economy. We will consider the CCC’s advice carefully when it is received.