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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the time required to restructure the UK's economy to reach zero carbon emissions before 2050.

Following the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report on global warming of 1.5°C last month, I have asked our independent experts, the Committee on Climate Change, for their advice on the implications of the Paris Agreement for the UK’s long-term emissions reduction targets, including on setting a net zero target and how emissions reductions might be achieved across the economy.

We will consider their advice carefully when it is received.