Courier Services: Environmental Impact Assessment

(asked on 3rd March 2020) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent environmental impact assessment his Department has made of the growth of the courier industry.


Answered by
Kwasi Kwarteng Portrait
Kwasi Kwarteng
This question was answered on 10th March 2020

BEIS publishes statistics annually on UK territorial greenhouse gas emissions. Latest statistics show, total greenhouse gas emissions from road transport were estimated to be 112.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2018. It is not possible to separate out courier road transport emissions from other road transport emissions based on the statistics.

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