Question follow-through · 10135
Carbon Emissions: Cost Benefit Analysis
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has commissioned a cost-benefit analysis of the Government's net zero target.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has commissioned a cost-benefit analysis of the Government's net zero target.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2024
Answer published
The UK was the first country to set legally binding carbon budgets and the first major economy to establish a net zero target in law. An Impact Assessment of the level of the Sixth Carbon Budget was published at the time, including a cost-benefit analysis...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
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British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
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British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme: Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme
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Electricity and Natural Gas: Standing Charges
19 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that standing charges for (a) electricity and (b) gas reflect actual service costs.
Drax Power Station: Subsidies
9 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the Government plans to continue providing subsidy payments to the Drax power station.
Drax Power Station
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British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
16 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent discussions he has had with British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme trustees about the review of that Scheme.
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13 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his planned timetable is for publication of the review of the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme.
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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Equality
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