Found: challenges and can limit the ability to maximise vehicle fill and hence collection efficiency and carbon

Found: Second-hand goods contribute significantly less to carbon emissions compared to new manufacturing

Found: Retailers have significantly reduced carbon emissions, water and energy usage, and increased the

Found: operators have also driven growth for all operators on the East Coast Main Line, while reducing carbon

Found: from the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) indicating that one tonne of freight transported by rail reduces carbon

Found: contribution back to the Exchequer and has consistently improved its environmental performance, reducing carbon

Found: over the coming years and enthusiasm for modal shift as part of the industry’s push to reduce its carbon

Found: Although rail has low carbon emissions, UK rail’s carbon emissions are amongst the world’s highest.

Found: congestion while improving access Alongside the growing challenge of climate change and the need to reduce carbon

Found: emissions in non-domestic properties.

Found: encourage more people to visit high streets while promoting healthier lifestyles and reducing carbon

Found: What role can and should macroprudential policy play in promoting the transition to net zero carbon

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to help support low-income households to transition to net zero in Suffolk Coastal constituency.

Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

The Government is allocating around £20 billion over this Parliament and next improving energy efficiency and low carbon heating of homes, reducing reliance on fossil fuel heating and reducing household energy bills for low income households in Suffolk Coastal constituency as well as other constituencies.

The Government will deliver upgrades to over half a million homes in the coming years through Social Housing Decarbonisation, Home Upgrade Grant Schemes and Energy Company Obligation Schemes.

The Government has spent over £2 billion to support transition to zero emission vehicles (ZEVs), focusing on reducing barriers to adopting ZEVs, including offsetting higher upfront cost, and accelerating rollout of chargepoint infrastructure.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many zero-emission buses have been allocated funding under the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas scheme 1 as of 15 April 2024; and how many and what proportion of those buses (a) have been ordered and (b) are on the road as of that date.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Government provided £270 million to Local Transport Authorities under the ZEBRA 1 programme. This funded 1,314 buses,1,053 have been ordered of which 313 are already on our roads across England.

More recently, the Government announced ZEBRA 2, with a further £142.8 million to Local Transport Authorities. This will help LTAs to purchase more zero emission buses, going further in our commitment to reduce carbon emissions in the transport sector whilst improving service quality for users.

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when she plans to publish a response to the consultation on Introducing a performance-based policy framework in large commercial and industrial buildings, which closed on 9 June 2021.

Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

Government paused the rollout of the operational energy rating pilot scheme but remains interested in exploring the role that operational ratings can play in supporting energy reduction within the wider landscape for decarbonising commercial and industrial buildings.

We continue to engage with stakeholders to understand more about potential options for moving the dial on reducing carbon emissions and Government’s role in this.

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

What progress she has made on reaching the UK’s 2050 net zero target.

Answered by Claire Coutinho - Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero

Britain is the first major economy to halve emissions, whilst growing the economy by 80%. We have more ambitious targets for 2030 than the EU, with the UK aiming for a 68% reduction in emissions to their 55%. We have over-achieved on all carbon budgets to date, and remain on track for the next.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce levels of incineration of plastic.

Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

We are clear that we want to see less residual waste being generated in the first instance. To this end, in addition to our Collection and Packaging Reforms, we have set a statutory target under The Environmental Targets (Residual Waste) (England) Regulations 2023 to ensure that the total mass of residual waste (excluding major mineral wastes) for 2042 does not exceed 287 kg per person. This is the equivalent of a 50% reduction from 2019 levels. This is supported by an interim, non-statutory target set out in the Environmental Improvement Plan to ensure that residual municipal plastic waste for 2027 does not exceed 42 kg per person.

We are also working closely with DESNZ on the expansion of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme to cover fossil carbon emissions from waste incineration and EfW from 2028. This will provide an incentive for the development and uptake of decarbonisation technologies or waste management practices to reduce emissions from incineration of residual waste plastic.

Question

To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church is taking to help achieve net zero.

Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner

The Church Commissioners are committed to reducing the carbon intensity of their portfolio by 2025 and, as a member of the Asset Owners Alliance, reaching ‘Net Zero’ in the investment portfolio by 2050.

The General Synod has set a target for the Church of England to become Net Zero by 2030. The National Church Institutions are supporting every diocese with a grant to grow capacity and employ staff to manage the work of achieving this net zero ambition. The Church Commissioners have committed funding of £30m for 2023-25 and £190m total for a 9-year programme from 2023-31.

Stage one will explore the best ways to decarbonise the diverse range of buildings and navigate planning and governance structures. The project will assess cathedrals and clergy housing, with demonstration churches that can act as showpieces of what is possible. There will be a special grant available from dioceses to enable churches to fund improvements to their energy efficiency.

A second workstream supports schools in accessing public sector decarbonisation funds, and another stream of grants will match local fundraising in churches for net-zero carbon projects through the Buildings for Mission scheme

This will provide a clear picture of the kinds of projects that are effective in reducing emissions, ready for a scaled-up investment in the second 3-year period

Recent success stories include York Minster and the Chapel at Kings College, Cambridge, which have joined many other major churches and cathedrals across the country in installing new solar panels and renewable technologies, reducing their running costs and making them more sustainable buildings.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what account his Department takes of emissions from (a) wood chip and (b) multifuel power plants in overall (i) air quality and (ii) carbon budget assessments.

Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Our accredited official statistics provide data on the emissions of key air pollutants. This includes emissions from the combustion of wood chips and other fuels in energy industries. Estimates of emissions for ‘wood chip’ are included in the total for emissions from the combustion of ‘wood’ more broadly and the data can be found here, and information on each pollutant can be found here.

The Pollutant Release and Transfer Register also provides information on the emissions from specific power stations and industrial combustion plants.

Performance against carbon budgets is assessed based on the UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory, which includes all emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels at power stations. In accordance with UNFCCC guidelines, carbon dioxide emissions from biomass use are reported as a change in carbon stocks in the Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry sector of the country where the biomass is harvested. They are also reported as a memorandum item in the country where the biomass is used, but are not counted in that country’s total emissions to avoid double counting.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) on 18 March (17105), what discussions have taken place between the Department for Transport and the Driver and Vehicles Standards Agency regarding the Motorcycle Industry Association’s 'A Licence to Net Zero' campaign.

Answered by Lord Davies of Gower - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is committed to reviewing all aspects of motorcycle training and testing. It is working with key industry representatives, including the Motorcycle Industry Association, to plan the next roundtable meeting scheduled for 8 May 2024. The roundtable meeting will explore reforms to motorcycle training and testing, and licensing for L category vehicles as set out in the ‘A Net Licence to Zero’ action plan.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) on 12 February (12929), when they will publish the chapter on zero emission powered light vehicles for the Local Authority Transport Decarbonisation Toolkit.

Answered by Lord Davies of Gower - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The guidance for Local Authorities on zero emission powered light vehicles is being finalised and is expected to be published shortly.

Found: by promoting species that better tolerate fire, at the expense of fire -sensitive species.1,49–51 Carbon

I want the Government to extend the £2 bus fare cap to ensure continued access to affordable transportation. I believe this initiative has proven to be beneficial for the community by facilitating mobility, reducing carbon emissions, and promoting social inclusion.

Found: Providing affordable transportation, could improve access to essential services, reduce carbon emissions

Found: personalised energy services and products, helping to bring down consumer energy bills and cut down household carbon

Found: ECO is a government energy efficiency scheme in Great Britain to help reduce carbon emissions and tackle

Found: ECO is a government energy efficiency scheme in Great Britain to help reduce carbon emissions and tackle

Found: the existing Ferrybridge energy from waste NSIP facilities to meet the UK’s commitment to reduce carbon

Found: enable the existing Ferrybridge energy from waste NSIP facilities to meet the UK’s commitment to reduce carbon

Found: the existing Ferrybridge energy from waste NSIP facilities to meet the UK’s commitment to reduce carbon

Found: the existing Ferrybridge energy from waste NSIP facilities to meet the UK’s commitment to reduce carbon

Found: advantages of hemp fibre, including its potential contribution to the government’s ambitions for net zero carbon

Found: The UK has set ambitious decarbonisation goals, with targets to reduce carbon emissions compared to

Found: decommissioned in Nov. 2022 The dryer was fuel fed being solely responsible by the vast majority of Carbon

Found: retrofitting low carbon interventions in the estate to contribute to government targets in reduction of carbon

Found: advantages of hemp fibre, including its potential contribution to the government’s ambitions for net zero carbon

Found: This would be based on the systematic examination of carbon emissions impacts of expenditure being taken

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how much of the Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund was allocated in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.

Answered by Martin, Gillian - Minister for Energy and the Environment

Through the Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF),we allocated £3.1 million in 2021 for Call 1, £6.8 million in 2022 for Call 2 and £6.3 million in 2023 for Call 3 to co-invest with a diverse range of Scottish manufacturers to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions through increased energy efficiency and deep decarbonisation projects.