Select Committee · Environmental Audit Committee

The Seventh Carbon Budget

Status: Open Opened: 23 Sep 2025 27 recommendations 13 conclusions 1 report

This Environmental Audit Committee inquiry will examine the Climate Change Committee's advice on the Seventh Carbon Budget. It will consider the assumptions and costs underpinning the CCC’s recommendations, explore the balance between emerging and established technologies, the policy choices facing Government, and the potential impacts on households, businesses and the wider economy. The inquiry will … Show more

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
8th Report - The Seventh Carbon Budget HC 1327 4 Mar 2026 40 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

2 items
8 Recommendation 8th Report - The Seventh Carbon Budget Deferred

Alongside the draft Carbon Budget Order for the Seventh Carbon Budget, the Government should publish...

Alongside the draft Carbon Budget Order for the Seventh Carbon Budget, the Government should publish a clear, indicative, cross-governmental delivery framework. The framework should demonstrate how departmental policies will be aligned, mutually reinforcing and consistent with the emissions limits set by Parliament. This framework should: • set out the respective … Read more

Government response AI summary
The government acknowledges the importance of coordination and states it will publish a statutory delivery plan for the Seventh Carbon Budget after Parliament decides the budget level. It will carefully consider the Committee’s specific recommendations for strengthening cross-government delivery when developing this plan, rather than …
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15 Recommendation 8th Report - The Seventh Carbon Budget Deferred

Alongside the draft Seventh Carbon Budget Order, the Government should publish draft sector delivery plans...

Alongside the draft Seventh Carbon Budget Order, the Government should publish draft sector delivery plans setting out how each sector is expected to contribute to delivery of the budget. These plans should: • Set out the policy instruments that will be used and when they will take effect; • Identify … Read more

Government response AI summary
The government states it will align with statutory duties to lay a delivery plan for the Seventh Carbon Budget after the budget level has been set. It welcomes the Committee's suggestions for sector delivery plans and will carefully consider these elements, including policy instruments, funding, …
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Oral evidence sessions

3 sessions
Date Witnesses
7 Jan 2026 Emma Pinchbeck · Climate Change Committee, Nigel Topping · Climate Change Committee, Polly Cook · Leeds City Council, Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE · Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations, Toby Park · Behavioural Insights Team View ↗
3 Dec 2025 Caroline Bragg · Association for Decentralised Energy, Claire Dykta · National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), Dr Edmund Hughes · Green Marine Associates, Gareth Stace · UK Steel, Jonathon Counsell · International Airlines Group, Rt Hon Chris Huhne · Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association, Tanya Sinclair · Electric Vehicles UK, Victoria Whitehouse · UKRI Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge View ↗
12 Nov 2025 Mike Childs · Friends of the Earth, Professor Joeri Rogelj · Imperial College Business School and Grantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment, Professor Michael Grubb · UCL, Sam Hunter Jones · ClientEarth, Shaun Spiers · Green Alliance View ↗

Who gave evidence

18 witnesses
WitnessOrganisationSessions
Caroline Bragg · Head of Policy Association for Decentralised Energy 1
Claire Dykta · Head of Markets National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) 1
Dr Edmund Hughes · Director Green Marine Associates 1
Emma Pinchbeck · CEO Climate Change Committee 1
Gareth Stace · Director General UK Steel 1
Jonathon Counsell · Group Sustainability Director International Airlines Group 1
Mike Childs · Head of Science, Policy and Research Friends of the Earth 1
Nigel Topping · Chair Climate Change Committee 1
Polly Cook · Chief Officer, Climate, Energy and Green Spaces Leeds City Council 1
Professor Joeri Rogelj · Director of Research Imperial College Business School and Grantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment 1
Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE · Director Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations 1
Professor Michael Grubb · Professor of Energy and Climate Change and Direct… UCL 1
Rt Hon Chris Huhne · Chair Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association 1
Sam Hunter Jones · Senior Lawyer ClientEarth 1
Shaun Spiers · Executive Director Green Alliance 1
Tanya Sinclair · CEO Electric Vehicles UK 1
Toby Park · Director, Climate, Energy and Sustainability Behavioural Insights Team 1
Victoria Whitehouse · Deputy Director UKRI Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge 1

Correspondence

4 letters
DateDirectionTitle
23 Jun 2026 To cttee Letter from the Minister of Climate relating to The Seventh Carbon Budget, 22 J…
11 Feb 2026 From cttee Letter to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero relating to d…
11 Feb 2026 To cttee Letter from the Chair of the Climate Change Committee, Nigel Topping CMG, relat…
12 Nov 2025 To cttee Letter from the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero relating t…