Question follow-through · 21306
Department for Business and Trade: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what targets his Department has set to help achieve the Government's commitments to net zero.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jan 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what targets his Department has set to help achieve the Government's commitments to net zero.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Climate Change Act sets our commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050 in law. The UK has halved its emissions, having cut them by around 53% between 1990 and 2023. As my Rt hon Friend the Prime Minister announced on 12th November, the UK has pled...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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