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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the Climate Change Committee on the use of wood burning stoves over the next (a) 10 and (b) 20 years.

Defra officials and the Air Quality Expert Group worked with the Climate Change Committee in 2020 to identify the opportunities and potential tensions from policies and interventions to achieve net zero and other environmental outcomes such as air quality. We set out our proposals to reduce air pollution from wood burning in our Environmental Improvement Plan. We are not considering a ban on domestic burning in England. Defra officials regularly engage with the Climate Change Committee on a wide range of issues.