Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate she has made of the carbon emissions created by the import of goods manufactured abroad in each of the last three years.

The department does not hold information on the estimated carbon emissions related to imported goods for 2021 and 2022. The latest data on carbon footprint associated with the UK's consumption of goods and services for the year 2020 was published by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on the 2nd of August 2023.