Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 68877
Summertime: Carbon Emissions
Tabled: 17 July 2025
Answered: 24 July 2025
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of moving to (a) single and (b) double summer time on cumulative carbon emissions.
Answer
Justin MaddersThe Government believes the current daylight-saving arrangements represent the optimal use of the available daylight across the UK. Therefore, we have no plans to introduce single summertime, double summertime, or other such changes. Since the Government ...
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