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

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Duncan of Springbank on 5 November 2019 (HL460), what were the equivalent green house gas emissions from incineration in the waste and energy supply sectors in (1) 2017, (2) 2018, and (3) 2019.

In 2017, an estimated 5.2 Mt (million tonnes) of CO₂e (carbon dioxide equivalents) were emitted from incineration in the energy supply sector and 0.3 Mt of CO₂e were emitted from incineration in the waste sector.

In 2018, an estimated 6.0 Mt of CO₂e were emitted from incineration in the energy supply sector and 0.3 of CO₂e were emitted from incineration in the waste sector.

Emissions from biogenic waste material are not included in these figures, consistent with domestic and international reporting of greenhouse gas emissions.

We are not currently able to provide equivalent statistics for 2019 as these are not yet available. The Final Statistics for UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990-2019 will be published in February 2021.