HC Deb 05 April 1995 vol 257 c1283W
Mr. Robert Ainsworth

To ask the Secretary of State for the environment if he has revised the carbon savings target he set for "The Energy Savings Trust in Climate Change—the UK Programme". [17971]

Mr. Robert B. Jones

I refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave to him on 28 March,Official Report, column 605. The trust is currently reviewing its plans. It estimates that the programme of activities already established and financed will save about 0.3 million tonnes of carbon in the year 2000. Further schemes will make additional contributions, but they are not yet established. The Government are updating the carbon dioxide chapter of their climate change programme, and this will include an assessment of the likely contribution of energy efficiency. The Government will continue to reflect the key role of the trust, and the targets it sets itself, in the programme; but they will not set targets for the trust.