PART 3Reports and Statements against Targets and Budgets etc

Carbon budgets

38Interim progress reporting for budgetary period

1

The Department must, during the course of each budgetary period, prepare and publish a report setting out what progress has been made in implementing the proposals and policies set out in the climate action plan prepared under section 29 for that period.

2

Each Northern Ireland department must provide the Department with—

a

information on the progress it has made in its areas of responsibility in implementing its proposals and policies, and

b

such other assistance as the Department requires in the preparation of the report.

3

Each Northern Ireland department must provide the information on its progress for a budgetary period before the end of the first 33 months of that period.

4

The Department must lay the report for a budgetary period before the Assembly before the end of the third year of that period.