Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Eighth sitting) - 7th July 2022

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Eighth sitting).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-07-07/debates/123E4AEC-4744-4709-B8AB-06CF337ED9E2/GeneticTechnologyPrecisionBreedingBillEighthsitting

14:36 Daniel Zeichner (Labour)

The Environment Act was heralded by the Government as “World-leading”—remember that? The Prime Minister hailed it as the most ambitious environmental programme of any country on earth, neatly timing Royal Assent to the Bill with the COP26 summit hosted in Glasgow. However, a raft of policies in this sphere and specifically in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have been brought forward that will have significant impacts on the environment, before the Government have fulfilled their obligations under the Environment Act.

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15:49 Victoria Prentis

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St Edmunds (Jo Churchill), whose work on the Bill and generally in the Department, on climate change and adaptation in particular, I really value, as I do her personal friendship and help to me over the time she has spent in DEFRA. I very much hope she will be back.

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