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 25 October 2016 to Question 47955, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the targeted reduction of CO2 emissions to 57 per cent of 1990 levels by 2030 is met.

The Government has already made progress towards the targeted reduction of CO2 emissions by 2030 - provisional statistics indicate that UK emissions in 2015 were 38% lower than in 1990.

We are looking ahead to our emissions reduction plan which will set out how we will reduce emissions through the 2020s and so form an important signal to the markets, businesses and investors.