Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 100954

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon Emissions

Tabled: 17 December 2025
Answered: 12 January 2026

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the net zero targets are for (a) their Department and (b) its arm’s-length bodies; and whether guidance has been issued on adopting net zero targets earlier than 2050.

Answer

Mary Creagh
The Net Zero target in the Climate Change Act 2008 is a target for the whole of the UK, not individual departments or arms-length bodies. The Greening Government Commitments are the central framework setting out the actions UK Government departments and t...
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