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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he expects the UK to halve its carbon budget.

The carbon budgets currently set in legislation (carbon budgets 1 to 6 covering the period between 2008 to 2037) are among the most stringent in the world. The UK has over-achieved against the first (2008-12) and second (2013-17) carbon budgets, and the latest projections show that we are on track to meet the third (2018-22).

In October, the Government published the Net Zero Strategy, setting out the action it will take to keep the UK track for the UK’s carbon budgets and 2030 NDC, and establishes the longer-term pathway towards net zero by 2050.