Summertime: Carbon Emissions

(asked on 19th February 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an estimate of the potential effect of adopting British Summer Time permanently on levels of carbon emissions.


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Paul Scully
This question was answered on 1st March 2021

The Government believes that the current daylight-saving arrangements represent the optimal use of the available daylight across the UK.

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