VoteClimate: Budget Resolutions - 13th March 2017

Budget Resolutions - 13th March 2017

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Budget Resolutions.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-03-13/debates/0013594B-ECF5-484E-8D98-45F0E47A313B/BudgetResolutions

21:40 Clive Lewis (Labour)

Last June, the British people did not vote to apparently reclaim their sovereignty, laws and rights from Brussels only to see the Government auction them off to the highest bidder, behind closed doors. We are talking about our NHS, our Climate Change Act, and our employee rights. Nor did the British people vote to divide the Union, yet the Government’s hard Brexit is the key reason Nicola Sturgeon has given for requesting a second referendum. The First Minister wants the people of Scotland to have a choice, just as the Government now have a choice: do they want hard Brexit or do they want to retain the Union?

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22:16 Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)

On energy, there was nothing for the oil and gas industry; nothing on carbon capture and storage; nothing on renewables where investment will fall by 95% by 2020 and one in six jobs is at risk; nothing on decarbonisation and transport; nothing on Brexit; and nothing for farmers in Scotland. This is a poor Budget and it is only hidden by the Brexit shambles.

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