VoteClimate: Leaving the EU: Preparations - 3rd September 2019

Leaving the EU: Preparations - 3rd September 2019

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Leaving the EU: Preparations.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-09-03/debates/866231D8-0194-4795-BC01-C685CA646845/LeavingTheEUPreparations

17:04 The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Michael Gove)

The Government have also acted to provide assurance that business and individuals can have the maximum level of confidence about the future. We have signed continuity agreements with countries, covering more than £90 billion in trade. We have replacement civil nuclear energy trading agreements with Canada, America, Australia and the International Atomic Energy Agency. We have secured aviation agreements with 14 countries, including the US and Canada, and we also have arrangements with the EU on aviation, roads and rail to ensure smooth travel between the UK and European nations. We also have arrangements on education exchanges, social security, fisheries, climate change and a number of other areas. Agreements are in place covering financial services, so that transactions can continue to take place and financial and market stability can be underpinned. Of course, we have a robust legal framework in place: six exit-related Bills that cater for different scenarios have been passed, and the Government have also laid more than 580 EU-exit statutory instruments.

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17:14 Jon Trickett (Labour)

Today in Holyrood, we see a tale of two Governments. Today, the Scottish Government have set out their programme for government to tackle a climate emergency, improve public services and introduce a fairer economy. Yet here we debate food shortages, medicine stockpiling, price increases and job losses; the height of Government ambition is hoping that it will not be as bad as the experts tell them it will.

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