Question follow-through · 49835

Pension Funds: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Financial Reporting Council’s review of the Stewardship Code on pension schemes' decarbonisation goals.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
1 May 2025
Target answer date
6 May 2025
Answer
12 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 1 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Financial Reporting Council’s review of the Stewardship Code on pension schemes' decarbonisation goals.

  2. 6 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 May 2025

    Answer published

    The UK Stewardship Code is voluntary and provides signatories with an opportunity to report in a transparent and comparable way for clients and beneficiaries on how the signatory is delivering on the investment approaches mandated by their clients. The Fi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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