Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to implement the recommendation of the Committee on Climate Change on the UK’s planned Nationally Determined Contribution to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The UK has committed to coming forward with an increased Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) well ahead of COP26. In setting the NDC the Government will take into account a range of factors and be informed by advice from the UK’s independent Committee on Climate Change.