Recommendation 29

In light of the Prime Minister’s confirmation at the Despatch Box to the Chair of this committee that he will personally drive cross-government action on climate change, we recommend that the Prime Minister directs the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to work with his counterparts in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Department for Transport to seek further contributions from their departments to the national effort to enhance the UK’s energy security and reduce energy wastage. This cross-government work on energy security should inform the new and revised Net Zero Strategy that the Government is required to publish by March 2023. We further recommend that these Departments contribute to a comprehensive update to the British Energy Security Strategy in the spring of 2023. In that update the Government should indicate its progress in reducing direct and indirect reliance on Russian imports, securing energy supplies and improving energy efficiency. (Paragraph 140) North Sea oil and gas in transition