Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
(asked on 8th September 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with local authorities regarding achieving net zero by 2050.
Answered by
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 22nd September 2021
Ministers in BEIS and across Government meet local authorities on a range of net zero issues through meetings with individual councils, and with organisations such as the Local Government Association and the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers.
Officials in Government departments also meet local authorities and other stakeholders on the effective design of their respective policies which help to meet net zero goals.