6th Special Report - The Ministry of Justice: Environmental Sustainability: Government’s Response to the Committee’s Third Report

This is the government's response, published 18 May 2018.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The Ministry of Justice accepts some of the Committee's recommendations, including publishing sustainability strategies and the costs and benefits of new policies, but does not accept the call for an annual analysis of environmental cost cases.

• On environmental justice costs, the MoJ says it "does not accept the Committee's recommendation to publish an annual analysis". It will formally review the regime "when it has sufficient data to do so (which is likely to be within two years, that is by April 2020)".
• On greenhouse gases, the MoJ proposes a new target of a 38% reduction by 2020 against the 2009/10 baseline, compared with the earlier 22% target, which it says it has already met.
• It accepts the recommendation to publish its sustainability strategies, stating it has done so on GOV.UK, and "plans to publish a Water Strategy by December 2018".
• It accepts the recommendation to publish energy benchmarking results "by spring 2019" and commits to setting carbon reduction targets for each prison during 2018. It will review options for waste and water targets during 2018/19.

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