Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether her Department has taken recent steps with contractors to help reduce the level of embodied carbon in construction projects before contracting processes begin.

We are working with the construction sector to reduce its emission contributions to help meet our net zero target, with a focus on construction processes including transport and the plant and machinery it uses, and in the built environment. We are working closely with the construction sector to reduce embodied carbon and are looking at a range of means for doing so.