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date	23/01/2024
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what targets his Department has set to help achieve the Government's commitments on net zero.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	11074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government set out how we would meet our commitments in the Net Zero Strategy in 2021 which included a detailed breakdown of actions required across all sectors of the economy. This was updated in 2023 through the publication of 'Powering Up Britain'.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has halved its emissions, ahead of every other major economy, and we have grown our economy by over 70% since 1990. The UK over-achieved against the first and second carbon budgets, and the latest projections show that we are on track to meet the third.</p><p> </p><p>We have one of the most ambitious decarbonisation targets in the world, and we have set more stretching targets for 2030 than most countries. We plan to cut emissions by 68% by 2030, which is more than the EU, Japan or the United States.</p> answering member constituency Brecon and Radnorshire answering member printed Fay Jones question first answered 30/01/2024 13:45:57 answering member 4763 label Biography information for Fay Jones
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1550665

registered interest
date	12/12/2022
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, by what date they expect their Department to be carbon neutral in its day to day operations.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	108323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to delivering Net Zero by 2050.</p><p> </p><p>Central Government reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% in 2019-20 compared to a 2009-10 baseline, exceeding its target of 43%.</p><p> </p><p>The Greening Government Commitments set out the actions that UK government departments and their agencies will take to reduce their impacts on the environment, including targets for departmental reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, with current targets for the period 2021-25. The Department is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions wherever possible and has ambitious targets under the Greening Government Commitments.</p> answering member constituency Vale of Clwyd answering member printed Dr James Davies question first answered 20/12/2022 10:41:49 answering member 4476 label Biography information for Dr James Davies
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1460119

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what steps his Department is taking to contribute to efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	159077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>The Department is committed to reducing emissions and energy consumption to reduce costs. The Department's current targets to make progress on reducing emissions have been published as part of the Greening Government Commitments. The Government's recently published British Energy Security Strategy will protect the UK from price spikes in the future by accelerating our move towards cleaner, cheaper, home-grown energy.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 27/04/2022 14:02:53 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1441020

registered interest
date	14/03/2022
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether his Department has published a plan setting out the steps it plans to take to transition to net zero emissions.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	139633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department is committed to reducing emissions and energy consumption wherever possible, as part of the UK’s transition to net zero. Current targets to make progress on reducing emissions have been published, as part of the Greening Government Commitments.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published the Net Zero Strategy in October 2021, which sets out policies and proposals for decarbonising all sectors of the UK economy to meet our net zero target by 2050.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 22/03/2022 10:10:05 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1441042

registered interest
date	14/03/2022
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what steps his Department is taking to measure its carbon footprint.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	139652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2022 answer text <p>Greenhouse gas emissions are published annually in the Greening Government Commitments Annual Reports.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 22/03/2022 14:30:48 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins