On agility, the Minister will know that the majority of the thousands of rules that need to be changed are in the environmental area. Does she think it is a good idea that civil servants are completely distracted and focused on the changes to these rules when we have one in four people in food poverty, 63,000 people dying a year due to poor air quality, sewage pouring into our seas and crabs dying off the north-east coast? Would it not be better if the civil servants and the Government tackled those problems rather than going down a rabbit hole and inventing worse standards than the EU, such as trying to get to World Health Organisation air quality standards by 2040, which the EU is trying to get to by 2030?
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Geraint Davies
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 18 January 2023.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.
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