Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the report entitled 10 years of the UK Climate Change Act, published by the London School of Economics and Political Science on 30 March, 2018 what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the recommendation in that report to amend the Climate Change Act 2008 to include a statutory response time for carbon plans.
There are currently no plans to amend the Climate Change Act to include a statutory response time for the publication of carbon plans.