Mr. Lancaster

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to North-East Milton Keynes constituency, the effects on Milton Keynes of the policies and actions of his Department and its predecessors since 1997. ( 316037 )

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Joan Ruddock

The Department of Energy and Climate Change and its predecessors have implemented a large number of policies to address energy security, emissions reductions, low carbon economic growth and fuel poverty since 1997. Following are some of the key achievements, along with information on the number of households assisted by the warm front scheme in North-East Milton Keynes constituency. It would be disproportionately costly to provide statistical information on the impact of all the policies to the level of detail requested, but statistical information covering energy and climate change is available at:

Total UK greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced by about 12 per cent. compared with 1997.

The UK is on track to cut emissions by nearly twice our Kyoto target (22 per cent. below 1990 levels by 2008-12 compared to the target of 12.5 per cent. set out under the Kyoto agreement).

The Climate Change Act in 2008 set a target of at least 80 per cent. reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050. Our first three carbon budgets legally bind the UK to a cut in greenhouse gases of 34 per cent. by 2018-22 against a 1990 baseline. In 2009, the UK's Low Carbon Transition Plan set out the long-term vision for climate change and energy and shows how we will meet the carbon budgets set out in the Climate Change Act.

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