DEFRA is currently undertaking a research project and gathering other evidence on the contribution that corporate reporting makes to the UK meeting its climate change objectives and on the associated benefits and costs of reporting, environment minister James Paice has told Liberal Democrat MP Roger Williams.

The project will include an assessment of the merits of reporting on indirect emissions. He added that a report of this review will be laid before Parliament by 1 December. The timetable for decisions on mandatory reporting is still under consideration, he stressed.

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