Climate Change Minister gave evidence to Lords

• Parliament TV: Commission Communication on a roadmap for moving to a competitive low carbon economy in 2050 and the Commission Communication on the Energy Efficiency Plan 2011
• EU Sub-Committee B - Internal Market, Energy and Transport
• EU Sub-Committee D - Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment

Members of the Lords EU Internal Market, Energy and Transport and EU Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment Sub-Committees, questioned Mr Barker about proposals from the European Commission for the Energy Efficiency Plan 2011 and a low carbon economy roadmap.

Witness

The Minister and officials gave evidence on Wednesday 15 June in the House of Lords, Palace of Westminster 

• Greg Barker, Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change

Topics included:

• whether households' energy bills will increase due to the EU's requirement that energy companies help consumers make their homes more energy efficient
• whether the EU will achieve its target of 20% improvement in energy efficiency by 2020
• why the European Commission has not proposed a firm target for emissions to be reduced by 30% by 2020, which the UK Government advocate
• whether the agricultural industry is able to increase food production and bio-energy whilst lowering greenhouse gas emissions
• EU Environment Ministers discussed the low carbon economy roadmap on Tuesday 21 June.
  
• Click here to view the corrected transcript of the evidence session

Further information

• About Parliament: Select Committees
• Visiting Parliament: Select Committees