The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has disputed comments made by a Conservative MP last week that the government’s carbon plan would be published as late as June.
The UK’s energy policy will now be a decided by a new industry led department headed up by former communities minister Greg Clark, who has been appoint secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has been told to pull a television advert by the Advertising Standards Authority which presented a number of misleading claims about the Green Deal initiative.