Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions his Department has had with bodies in Northern Ireland on addressing climate change.

Ministers and officials in the Department engage with their counterparts regularly in the Northern Ireland Executive on a wide range of issues including work related to the transition to a low carbon economy and tackling climate change. This includes, for example, discussions with the Northern Ireland Executive on the Electricity Market Reform programme, which is designed to decarbonise our electricity generation, and updating them on international climate change policy developments, such as United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations.