38.—(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.