Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 15609

Carbon Emissions

Tabled: 21 November 2024
Answered: 26 November 2024

Question

Richard Tice

Reform UKBoston and Skegness

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what data his Department holds on (a) the annual costs incurred to date in implementing Net Zero policies and (b) the measurable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions achieved as a direct re

Answer

Kerry McCarthy
The Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) published its analysis of the cost of reaching net zero by 2050 in chapter 3 of the July 2021 edition of its UK Fiscal Risk Report. As the OBR has noted, “the costs of failing to get climate change under control w...

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