Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answers of 2 November 2021 to Questions 68176 - 68187, whether his Department's assessment of all previously licensed fields included scope 3 emissions.
Downstream scope 3 emissions of oil and gas production (the emissions released from the end-use combustion of the oil or gas product) are accounted for within the UK’s carbon budget under the sectors that consume oil and gas.