UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Shipping
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to page 19 of the Final stage impact assessment entitled UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Scope Expansion - Domestic maritime, published on 25 November 2025, for what reason no quantified analysis was undertaken on the regional and equalities impacts.
Answered by Chris McDonald
The Impact Assessment did not include quantified regional or equalities analysis because the available evidence did not support robust estimations of impacts at that level of granularity.
The Assessment finds that compliance costs are modest relative to operators’ overall costs and, as a result, a qualitative assessment found that regional or distributional impacts are expected to be limited.
The Government will review the maritime element of the United Kingdom Emissions Trading Scheme in 2028 with further consideration of regional or distributional impacts.
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