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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the ability to use the Slurry Infrastructure Grant to reduce methane emissions in line with the Global Methane Pledge.

The Slurry Infrastructure grant will reduce pollutants to water and air. In particular the grant requirement to cover the stores with impermeable covers will reduce the key emissions of ammonia, nitrous oxide and methane.

The UK already has a strong record on methane emission reductions, having reduced UK territorial methane emissions by 60% compared to 1990 levels. While global methane emissions peaked in 2020, the UKs methane emissions peaked in 1991 and have decreased substantially since then, due to concerted action across the energy, waste and agriculture sectors.