Question follow-through · 1395
EU Emissions Trading Scheme and UK Emissions Trading Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his policy is on linking the UK and EU Emissions Trading Schemes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 14 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 22 May 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his policy is on linking the UK and EU Emissions Trading Schemes.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2026
Answer published
The UK and EU agreed to work towards linking their emissions trading schemes, the UK ETS and EU ETS, at the May 2025 UK-EU summit. This was on the basis of the Common Understanding text agreed at that summit. Linking is expected to bring significant econo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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