Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent engagement the Committee on Climate Change has carried out with organisations and individuals in Northern Ireland to promote understanding and inform debate on climate change and its effects.

On 4th and 5th December 2013, the Committee's chairman Lord Deben and Dr. Ute Collier from the CCC Secretariat visited Belfast to meet with a range of organisations to discuss climate change policy.

In addition, members of the CCC Secretariat are in regular contact with officials from the Department of Environment.