VoteClimate: Draft Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Re... - 31st March 2025

Draft Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Re... - 31st March 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Draft Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Re....

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-03-31/debates/b70c00d7-57eb-42e3-9e61-834ecc64ce17/DraftEcodesignForEnergy-RelatedProductsAndEnergyInformation(Amendment)(NorthernIreland)Regulations2025

18:45 Nick Timothy (Conservative)

However, we offer a word of caution to Ministers. These regulations put a modest compliance cost on manufacturers that sell their goods in both Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but the Government are now considering aligning the whole of the UK with net zero laws written and decided in Brussels. We would be signing up not only to the European Union emissions trading scheme, with its significantly higher carbon price—increasing our carbon price has not been ruled out by Ministers in a succession of answers to our questions—but to a whole slew of regulations that will be enforced by the European Court of Justice.

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