PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Agriculture: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (18 April 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons her Department's Greenhouse Gas Action Plan for Agriculture: Review 2016, published on 14 March 2017, did not adopt the Committee on Climate Change October 2016 advice on the need for the Government's approach to agricultural emissions to move beyond the current voluntary approach of providing information and advice; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

The Greenhouse Gas Action Plan (GHGAP) for Agriculture is an industry-led undertaking and the principal mechanism for delivering reductions in emissions from agriculture in England. The recently published review looked at the progress of the GHGAP during the period 2012 through to end of 2016 and recommended changes to further improve performance.

Advice from a number of sources, including the Committee on Climate Change will help us to make reducing greenhouse gas emissions a central part of the Government’s future farming and land use policy and ensure that agriculture contributes to the UK’s legally binding carbon reduction targets.

Answered by:
Dr Thérèse Coffey (Conservative)
24 April 2017