5th Report - UK Progress on reducing F-gas Emissions
- HC No.
- HC 469
- Published
- 25 Apr 2018
- Items
- 0
- Government response
- Government response published 11 July 2018. Read the government's response ↗
Select committee: Environmental Audit Committee
UK progress on reducing F-Gas emissions inquiry
Closed
Opened 9 Oct 2017
Closed 11 Jul 2018
Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Inquiry scope (the committee's words)
The Environmental Audit Committee hold an inquiry into the UK's progress on reducing fluorinated gas (F-gas) emissions and the impact leaving the EU will have on progress and reporting on reducing these harmful greenhouse gases in the future.
Where it stands
The inquiry is closed, opened 9 October 2017.
The committee has published 1 report, most recently 5th Report - UK Progress on reducing F-gas Emissions on 25 April 2018.
The government's response
Published 11 July 2018.
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The Government's response to the Committee's report on F-gas emissions agrees on promoting low GWP inhalers, declines to publish detailed enforcement plans, and sets out preparations for both staying in and leaving the EU F-gas system.
- On inhalers, the Government "agrees that low GWP inhalers should be promoted within the NHS". On increasing the recycling rate for metered dose inhalers it says only that it "will discuss with industry" how this can be done.
- On heat pumps and the Greening Government Commitments, it will "continue to work with industry" on barriers to low GWP refrigerants, and will "explore" early targets for phasing out products containing high GWP F-gases.
- On enforcement, it states that publishing detailed plans for monitoring non-compliance "would be inappropriate" because this could make the Regulation harder to enforce.
- On leaving the EU, it is "exploring all options including staying in the EU system" after the implementation period. It "intends to maintain the current pace of HFC phase down" regardless, and Defra is developing a separate UK system as a possibility.
Reports
- 5th Report - UK Progress on reducing F-gas Emissions25 April 2018
Evidence
- 3 oral evidence sessionsLatest 12 December 2017
Recent activity
- 8th Special Report - UK progress on reducing F-Gas emissions: Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report11 July 2018, Report published
- 5th Report - UK Progress on reducing F-gas Emissions25 April 2018, Report published
- Oral evidence session12 December 2017, Oral evidence
Reports
Oral evidence sessions
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