PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Renewable Energy: UK Trade with EU (13 June 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect on the renewables industry of the UK exiting the single market.

Asked by:
Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party)

As set out in my rt. hon. Friend the Prime Minister’s Mansion House speech on 2 March 2018, the UK is seeking the broadest and deepest possible agreement – covering more sectors, and co-operating more fully than any Free Trade Agreement anywhere in the world today – for its future economic partnership with the European Union.

Whatever our future relationship with the EU, we remain committed to delivering dependable, secure and low-carbon energy. Leaving the EU will not change any of our domestic statutory commitments to reduce our emissions, as laid out in the Climate Change Act 2008 – indeed, those targets are more ambitious and challenging than those set by EU legislation.

Answered by:
Claire Perry (Conservative)
19 June 2018