{"value":{"id":1182102,"askingMemberId":4671,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","uin":"901064","questionText":"What recent assessment he has made of trends in the rate of reduction in UK emissions.","answeringBodyId":201,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4134,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>In the UK we have shown it is possible to achieve economic growth while reducing emissions. Since 1990, we have cut our emissions by 43%, while growing our economy by more than three quarters - decarbonising faster than any other G20 country.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2017 and 2018 alone, we reduced emissions in the power sector by 6.6%.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Carbon Emissions","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1182102","method":"GET"}]}