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Energy: Carbon Emissions

Commons · Question 98181 · Tabled 8 Dec 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record

Answered 16 Dec 2025

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Asked by Carla Denyer

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether Transitional Energy Certificates will be required to supply environmental statements that (a) include Scope 3 emissions and (b) consider potential environmental impacts in line with w

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Answered by Michael Shanks, 16 Dec 2025

Transitional Energy Certificates will give the holder exclusivity over a specific area of the seabed. These areas of the seabed must be adjacent to an existing licensed block and will be managed on an ‘out of round’ basis by the North Sea Transition Autho...