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Procurement Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Lord True (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 13 July 2022. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Procurement Bill [HL].

I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Coaker. This has been an extremely interesting and thought-provoking debate, and I thank noble Lords for it.

There have been various strands in this debate, one of which is the last one alluded to by the noble Lord. There appears to be a suspicion in some minds about whether this lies in the may/must thing and whether there will be a national procurement policy statement. We have published a draft statement, which I will come back to later in my speech. I will not read any of it out, because the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, was kind enough to read out some of it—although I do not think that he quoted this specific bit—about

“contributing to the UK Government’s legally-binding target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050”.

I know that noble Lords are saying, “Oh well, yes, but, et cetera”—

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Reference

823 c491GC 

Session

2022-23

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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