UK Emissions Trading Scheme
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to align the UK Emissions Trading System with the EU Emissions Trading System.
Answered by Mike Kane
The Department for Transport contributes towards policy development on the UK Emissions Trading Scheme on transport related matters. Under the terms of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), the UK Government and EU agreed to consider linking our respective carbon pricing schemes and to cooperate on carbon pricing.
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