The Green Party reports Energy and Industry Minister Ebba Busch (KD) to the Riksdag’s constitutional committee after the press conference on reduced fuel tax.
Busch is accused of intentionally withholding information from the public.
The background is an answer that Ebba Busch gave to the question of how much emissions are expected to increase as a result of the government’s proposal for tax cuts on fuel.
– We have not yet made that calculation, answered Ebba Busch.
But in the government’s memorandum, the basis for the proposal, it is specified how much the emissions are expected to increase.
– It seems unlikely, although not impossible of course, that she did not have access to the PM (memorandum) that was sent out in parallel, says Märta Stenevi to TT.
– They have simply tried to duck the question of what this means for emissions.
She calls Busch’s answer “misleading” because the numbers “obviously were at the Government Office”.
– If she didn’t have it (access to the numbers), then you can really question whether the person who leads the work at the Ministry of Climate and Economy has any interest in finding out what emission increases a proposal will get, says Stenevi.
The Constitution Committee’s task is to review that the government follows the rules for government work.
FACT That’s what it says in the memorandum
The government’s memorandum “Reduced tax on petrol and diesel” states the following:
“Viewed in isolation, the proposal is estimated to lead to the territorial emissions of fossil carbon dioxide from the transport sector and from work machines increasing by approximately 350,000 tons in 2024 and approximately 490,000 tons in 2025.”
In her KU report, Märta Stenevi writes that it is “difficult to draw any other conclusions than that the Government deliberately withheld information from the public at the current press meeting, probably with the aim of avoiding information about the climate effects of the proposals being disseminated”.
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