Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, by what date they expect their Department to be carbon neutral in its day to day operations.

The Government is committed to delivering Net Zero by 2050.

Central Government reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent in 2019-20 compared to a 2009-10 baseline, exceeding its target of 43 per cent.

The Greening Government Commitments set out the actions that UK Government departments and their agencies will take to reduce their impacts on the environment, including targets for departmental reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, with current targets for the period 2021-25. The Department is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions wherever possible and has ambitious targets under the Greening Government Commitments.