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

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to Figure 2.3. on page 16 of the Updated energy and emissions projection 2019, published on 30 October, what steps (1) they have taken, and (2) they plan to take, to address any increase in CO2 emissions by the residential sector; whether they have a target for the reduction of emissions of CO2 in that sector; and if so, what that target is.

Between 1990 and 2018 UK greenhouse gas emissions have decreased by 43%. Over the same period, emissions from domestic homes have decreased by around 17%, or 18 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent

The Government is planning to publish a Heat and Buildings Strategy in the coming months, which will set out the immediate actions we will take for reducing emissions from buildings. These actions include the deployment of energy efficiency measures and low carbon heating as part of an ambitious programme of work required to enable key strategic decisions on how we achieve the mass transition to low-carbon heat and set us on a path towards our net zero targets.