VoteClimate: Points of Order - 5th June 2019

Points of Order - 5th June 2019

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Points of Order.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-06-05/debates/89760C87-0C6B-43CE-AABF-74F11C82C09B/PointsOfOrder

14:06 Rebecca Long-Bailey (Labour)

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Earlier today, the Minister for the Cabinet Office may have accidentally said, in response to a question about the UK’s carbon budgets, “We are not off track” to meeting those targets at all. The Government’s official adviser on climate change, the Committee on Climate Change, has reported that the UK is off track to meeting its fourth and fifth carbon budgets, and official statistics published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have also shown that it is off track. It is therefore a matter of established fact that the UK is off track to meeting its targets. Can you advise me, Mr Speaker, on how we can correct the record?

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