Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
Recommendation 5
Second Report - Climate Assembly UK: where are we now?
Published 8 Jul 2021
Paragraph 38
Addressed to Department for Business and Trade
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We are disappointed that the Minister has rowed back on the commitment given to us in oral evidence that the Government would provide a comprehensive and point-by-point response to the recommendations in CAUK’s ambitious report. We do not consider the Government’s submission and the Minister’s oral evidence to this Committee as being sufficient in this regard and ask the Minister to honour her commitment to provide a full response.
From: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, Second Report - Climate Assembly UK: where are we now? (HC 546), paragraph 38, 8 July 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 9 September 2021 (deadline 8 September 2021).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government sets out its existing public engagement work and says it "plans to set out" its engagement approach in the Net Zero Strategy, without stating that it accepts the Committee's recommendations.
- On engagement, it points to the 'Together for our Planet' campaign and says it will work with young people, schools, civil society groups and businesses, "including those who are harder to reach".
- On Climate Assembly UK, it says the findings are "an important addition" to its evidence base and are informing the Net Zero Strategy; it says it responded to the major areas of the report, and further detail will come in the Net Zero Strategy "in due course".
- On the Net Zero Review, it says the final report will be published "in due course, and in advance of COP26".
- On timelines, it cites dates already set, such as ending the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030, and says the Net Zero Strategy will be set out ahead of COP26 while "maintaining the flexibility to make strategic decisions".