Part of Cop26 – in the House of Commons at on 20 October 2021.
Laura Trott
Conservative, Sevenoaks
The Government are setting ambitious five-year carbon budgets and we have set out how we are going to meet those, but will the Minister consider setting interim targets to reassure my concerned constituents that we are on track?
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