Public Sector: Carbon Emissions
Commons · Question 79902 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Carla Denyer
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of the (a) funding required to fully decarbonise the public sector and (b) adaptation costs from not fully decarbonising that secto
Answer
Answered by Martin McCluskey, 20 Oct 2025
The internal estimate made by the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero in 2022 suggests that fully decarbonising the public sector would cost between £25-30 billion. The Department is currently updating this based on more recent cost assumptions. No...