Question follow-through · 62734
UK Emissions Trading Scheme: EU Emissions Trading Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he expects the UK will be ready to enter the carbon market linking the UK’s emissions trading scheme with that of the EU.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 4 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he expects the UK will be ready to enter the carbon market linking the UK’s emissions trading scheme with that of the EU.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jul 2025
Answer published
The UK and the EU have agreed to work towards linking the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) and EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) as announced at the Sumit on 19 May. To that end the UK and the EU have agreed the parameters for linking agreement, wh...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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