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1150368

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date	17/10/2019
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	Fracking: Earthquakes
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 the Government remains committed to the traffic light system to regulate fracking following seismic activity.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	1633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government has always been clear that it will only support the exploration of our shale gas resources in a safe and sustainable way. The Oil and Gas Authority is undertaking a scientific analysis of the data from Cuadrilla’s earlier operations in 2018 which will be published shortly. The Government will set out our future approach once we have considered the findings.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 22/10/2019 16:01:34 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1150433

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
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	Carbon Emissions
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 has received from the Committee on Climate Change an estimate of the costs of achieving net zero carbon emissions in each year from 2020 to 2049.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	1585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The Committee on Climate Change has not provided the Department with an estimate of the costs in each year from 2020 to 2049 for delivering the UK’s net zero target.</p><p> </p><p>Costs are inevitably uncertain between 2020 and 2049 but the CCC estimate that the costs of delivering the net zero target will be equivalent to 1-2% of GDP in 2050. We will publish further detail in the impact assessment for the sixth carbon budget and for all policies which we take forward to deliver the net zero target.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, HM Treasury are carrying out a review into the costs of transitioning to a net zero economy, as recommended by the CCC. The review will consider how to pay for this and how to achieve the transition in a way that works for households, businesses and public finances, as well as how we can ensure this is compatible with plans for a thriving and competitive economy.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 24/10/2019 09:45:34 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

1150435

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
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	Carbon Emissions
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 estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in each year between 2020 and 2050.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	1586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The Committee on Climate Change has not provided the Department with an estimate of the costs in each year from 2020 to 2050 for delivering the UK’s net zero target.</p><p> </p><p>Costs are inevitably uncertain between 2020 and 2049 but the CCC estimate that the costs of delivering the net zero target will be equivalent to 1-2% of GDP in 2050. We will publish further detail in the impact assessment for the sixth carbon budget and for all policies which we take forward to deliver the net zero target.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, HM Treasury are carrying out a review into the costs of transitioning to a net zero economy, as recommended by the CCC. The review will consider how to pay for this and how to achieve the transition in a way that works for households, businesses and public finances, as well as how we can ensure this is compatible with plans for a thriving and competitive economy.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 24/10/2019 09:45:41 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer