To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Prime Minister’s speech on Net Zero on 20 September 2023, what her Department’s planned timescale is for updating the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan to (a) reflect the Government’s policies and (b) demonstrate how the UK’s carbon budgets can be delivered; and if she will publish that plan on the Gov.uk website.
Answered on
20 October 2023
My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State keeps under review the UK's progress towards net zero and its interim carbon budgets and will take further action, if needed, to ensure that there are sufficient proposals and policies in place to meet her legal duties.
Over the past two years, the Government has published two detailed plans. Each year, the Government publishes updated forecasts of future emission projections across all sectors of the economy for policies that are already implemented or significantly developed.