§ Mr. BrakeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when the Government's consultation document on energy efficiency will be issued. [47800]
§ Angela EagleThe Government plan to issue a consultation paper later this summer on policy options for meeting the UK's climate change targets. This will focus on the Government's legally binding target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5 per cent. below 1990 levels over the period 2008–2012, and also look at measures which could deliver the Government's aim of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent. on 1990 levels by 2010. The scope for greater energy efficiency in business, the public sector and households will be an important feature of this paper.