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 1 November 2021 to Questions 67118 to 67120, 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.