Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what targets her Department has set to help achieve the Government's commitments on net zero.

The Government set out how we would meet our commitments for the Net Zero Strategy in 2021, which included a detailed breakdown of actions required across all sectors in the economy. This was updated in 2023 through the publication of Powering Up Britain.

The United Kingdom has halved its emissions, ahead of every other major economy, while having also grown our economy by over 70% since 1990. The UK over-achieved against the first and second carbon budgets, and the latest projections show that we are on track to meet the third.

We have one of the most ambitious decarbonisation targets in the world, and we have set more stretching targets for 2030 than most countries. We plan to cut emissions by 68% by 2030, which is more than the European Union, Japan or the United States.