Question reference: S5W-31592
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 4 September 2020
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Current status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 September 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how it will respond to the Citizen Assembly's report that is required under the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019, and whether it will do so in time for the Parliament to scrutinise this response before the end of the current session.
Answer
The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2019 requires Scotland’s Climate Assembly to lay its report before the Scottish Parliament by 28 February 2021. The Coronavirus (Scotland) (No. 2) Act 2020 amended this requirement, stating if the Assembly is unable to lay the report by this date for a reason relating to coronavirus, they must lay the report as soon as reasonably practicable after that date.
We will carefully consider all recommendations made in Assembly’s final report. The Act requires the Scottish Government to publish a statement within six months of receiving a copy of the report, setting out how we intend to respond to the recommendations made in it.