VoteClimate: Government Departments: Carbon Emissions - 1st March 2010

Government Departments: Carbon Emissions - 1st March 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Government Departments: Carbon Emissions.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-03-01/debates/10030149000012/GovernmentDepartmentsCarbonEmissions

Mr. Maude

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many tonnes of equivalent carbon dioxide were offset by each member of the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund, according to outturn figures, in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09 in respect of (i) domestic, (ii) short haul and (iii) long haul flights. ( 318345 )

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Mr. Bain

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change which Departments (a) are and (b) are not on target to stay within their allocated carbon budget for 2009-10; and what assessment he has made of the reasons for which such budgets are likely to be exceeded. ( 318616 )

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Joan Ruddock

In common with UK carbon budgets, departmental carbon budgets are for five-year periods (2008-12, 2013-17 and 2018-22). We will be reporting on progress towards meeting the budgets in October in our response to the annual report from the Committee on Climate Change.

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