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	registered interest
	date	22/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps her Department is taking to help tackle the climate emergency.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	900052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Tackling climate change and delivering net zero is a top priority for me and this whole Government, which is why we will be hosting COP26 next year and the Prime Minister announced he will chair a new Cabinet Committee on Climate Change.</p><p> </p><p>As the first major economy in the world to set a legally binding net zero target, we are backing words with action – from record levels of renewable power, to £2 billion of investment into clean technologies, to doubling of our International Climate Finance contribution to £11.6 billion.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/10/2019 13:28:38 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1145328

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Climate Change
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recommendations in the report by the World Future Council Unlocking the Trillions to Finance the 1.5°c Limit, published on 7 November 2017, concerning the role of central banks buying fossil fuel stranded assets on the condition that the money is invested in the renewable energy sector.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bird
	uin	HL17779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. I will correspond directly with the noble Lord.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government’s Green Finance Strategy sets out the Government’s approach to accelerating green finance. As set out in the Strategy, the Government welcomes the work of the Central Banks’ and Supervisors’ Network for Greening the Financial System, of which the Bank of England is a founding member.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 09/09/2019 16:27:22 question first ministerially corrected 02/10/2019 14:21:21 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank previous answer version 135185 answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
	tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

1144975

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has for a UK-wide high profile publicity campaign to raise awareness of the climate emergency.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
	uin	287575
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 09/09/2019 16:34:19 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

1144639

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment she has been made of the effect of preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal on her Department's climate-focused work.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Danielle Rowley
	uin	286837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 09/09/2019 16:06:58 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4628 label Biography information for Danielle Rowley

1144859

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether her Department plans to implement the recommendation of the Committee on Climate Change to meet the net zero emissions target without the use of international offsets.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Danielle Rowley
	uin	286841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 09/09/2019 16:36:30 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4628 label Biography information for Danielle Rowley

1140623

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to his Department's Guidance on how to prepare for Brexit if there's no deal, which parts of the Government’s plan for meeting climate change requirements in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal have been implemented.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	279472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>As part of the UK government’s climate change preparations for a no deal scenario:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The Government has prepared to maintain GHG emissions Monitoring, Reporting and Verification arrangements by laying two EU Exit Statutory Instruments (SIs) in Parliament which amend the GHG Emissions Trading Scheme regulations and related EU legislation which would be carried over into UK law by the Withdrawal Act.</li><li>A Carbon Emissions Tax was established through the Finance Act 2019, which will commence from 4 November in the event the UK leaves the EU ETS under a No Deal scenario.</li><li>We laid an SI on 8 March 2019 to fix legislative deficiencies in domestic law for Eco -design and Energy Labelling, and we will be laying a further SI to account for regulations that have come into force since 29 March.</li><li>A UK energy label generator was made available on GOV.UK on 4 April 2019 to enable UK-only suppliers to generate compliant energy labels in the event that the EU label generator becomes inaccessible following the UK’s exit</li></ul> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 30/07/2019 13:52:20 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna