Recommendation 30

As we explain in Part One, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has lead responsibility for all environmental policy areas, apart from climate change mitigation on which the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) leads. The exchequer departments, HM Treasury and HMRC, are expected to consider the government’s overall environmental objectives when undertaking their work.59 Other departments also have a role. For example, the Department for Transport leads on the government’s strategy to reduce carbon emissions from cars and make roads less congested and polluted by promoting lower-carbon-emitting transport.60