Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the role of local authorities in meeting the Government's net zero target.

The Secretary of State meets regularly with Cabinet Colleagues on the commitment to net Zero. The CAI last convened on 28 September to discuss high-priority climate change issues. The agenda item for this meeting was the Net Zero Strategy, which includes a commitment to set clear expectations and guidelines on how central and local government interact when delivering net zero, and a new Local Net Zero Programme which centres around the Local Net Zero Forum, announced in the Net Zero Strategy. The Forum will provide a framework for central and local government to collaborate on issues relating to capacity and capability to support local places' ambitions on net zero