Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has been told to come clean (Image: Getty)
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has been ordered to come clean about plans for net zero carbon emissions “without delay”. He pledged in January to reveal plans for a dramatic cut in the pollution linked to global warming, which is likely to involve a huge increase in onshore windfarms and solar power stations - and could mean forcing people to eat less meat.
But he has now been reprimanded by the Commons Environmental Audit Committee, chaired by Labour MP Toby Perkins, which has written to Mr Miliband complaining that he failed to keep his promise. Mr Perkins said he had been forced to make his complaint public because of the long delay. Mr Miliband is working on a “carbon budget”, which will be a legally-binding limit on the amount of carbon emissions the UK produces between 2037 and 2042. The goal is to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050.
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The Climate Change Committee, which advises Mr Miliband, said earlier this year that cutting emissions would involve a reduction in meat and dairy consumption. It said: “In our pathway, meat products will be mainly replaced by existing alternative protein products, some plant-based whole foods and, in the later years, novel alternative proteins.”
It also said more taxes on flights were needed to curb the growth in aviation, and more homes would need heat pumps instead of boilers.
A Department for Energy Security and Net Zero spokesperson said: "Accelerating to net zero is the economic opportunity of the 21st century and at the heart of the government’s mission to boost growth, create jobs and tackle the climate crisis.
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"As confirmed by the Energy Secretary in January, there will be a debate in the House of Commons on Carbon Budget 7."
Mr Miliband told MPs in January that he would share his plans with them. But Mr Perkins said: “In January, we were encouraged to hear the Secretary of State’s warm words about Parliament’s role in scrutinising plans for the Seventh Carbon Budget.
“But those warm words have not yet translated to any form of detail. What, if anything, will Ministers offer for scrutiny before Parliament is invited to agree the next Carbon Budget?
“Our role must be more than a rubber stamp; we need to know exactly what the Government intends to do, to reduce emissions sufficiently by 2042. I therefore urge the Secretary of State to respond without delay.”
He revealed that he wrote privately to Mr Miliband in February asking for the information. And he said he had now decided to make his concerns public.
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In a new letter to the Energy Secretary, Mr Perkins said: “I am concerned to note that the Committee is yet to receive a response, some eight weeks after the date by which the information was requested to be provided.” And he insisted: “Please arrange for a response to the letter to be sent without further delay.”
Mr Miliband last week insisted there would be no u-turn over controversial plans for net zero, even though the Climate Change Committee warned it will cost the UK around ￡4 billion every year.
Last week he said: “The critics will not shut up, I’m sure. But the critics need to know, if they want to fight about this, this Government says bring it on. Let’s bring on the fight.
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“Let’s have the argument and any day of the week, any hour of the day, any month of the year we will have the argument between cheap, clean renewables that give you energy security, lower bills, the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century, against their case to say no to all that, to stick simply with expensive, insecure fossil fuels which gave us the cost-of-living crisis, which ruined family finances, which ruined public finances, which ruined business finances, and they will say no to these huge job opportunities that are on offer.
“So whether it is political parties or other forces that want to take on net zero and the clean energy transition, they need to know that this Government is not for bending, this Government is not for buckling, this Government is standing firm.
“And, you know what, I think the British people are on our side on this.”
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