Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Greening Government Commitments, how many domestic flights were undertaken by government Departments in each of the last seven years; and what the greenhouse gas emissions associated with such flights were in each of those years.

Under the climate change mitigation Greening Government Commitment (GGC), Government has a sub-target to reduce the emissions from domestic business flights by at least 30% from a 2017 to 2018 baseline, and report the distance travelled by international business flights, with a view to better understanding and reducing related emissions where possible.

The requested information on how many flights were undertaken for the 2016 to 2017 through to the 2020 to 2021 financial years is published in the GGCs Annual Reports for those years. Departments report on their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and the GHG emissions associated with these flights are included, but not dis-aggregated by source, within this reporting.

The GHG emissions figures associated with domestic flights by departments for the 2021 to 2022 financial year will be published in the GGCs Annual Report for 2021 to 2022, due later this year. The data for the 2022 to 2023 financial year will be published in the Annual Report covering 2022 to 2023.