Agriculture Bill (Fourteenth sitting) - 20th November 2018

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Agriculture Bill (Fourteenth sitting).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-11-20/debates/48E6BD0F-F07A-4D18-972E-83D29C3D908D/AgricultureBillFourteenthsitting

14:15 George Eustice

The hon. Lady asked whether there is a division between DEFRA and the Treasury. There is not. Within Government there are discussions, obviously, and then there is a consensus and an agreement. She kindly offered to protect the Secretary of State through the proposed new clause, but I can assure her that the Secretary of State needs no protecting; he is very good at making his case within Government. We already have some statutory targets through international agreements in areas such as climate change, but we believe that environmental targets and objectives should be picked up through the 25-year environment plan—there were some objectives in that plan—and are fundamentally a matter for the environment Bill. I am sure that she will be very engaged in discussions about that Bill when it comes forward.

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