Cabinet Office: Carbon Emissions

Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 21 March 2022.

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Photo of Rachel Hopkins Rachel Hopkins Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has published a plan setting out the steps it plans to take to transition to net zero emissions.

Photo of Rachel Hopkins Rachel Hopkins Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to measure its carbon footprint.

Photo of Jacob Rees-Mogg Jacob Rees-Mogg Minister of State (Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency)

The Department is committed to reducing emissions and energy consumption wherever possible, as part of the UK’s transition to net zero. The Department’s current targets to make progress on reducing emissions have been published, as part of the Greening Government Commitments.

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.

Greenhouse gas emissions are published annually in the Greening Government Commitments Annual Reports.

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