VoteClimate: EU general budgets for 2015 and 2016 - 14th September 2015

EU general budgets for 2015 and 2016 - 14th September 2015

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate EU general budgets for 2015 and 2016.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-09-14/debates/0508c80a-9d15-412d-b4e4-bf710f4c0098/EUGeneralBudgetsFor2015And2016

16:57 Barbara Keeley

We welcome the overall increase in the fund for competitiveness for growth and jobs of 11.4% for 2016 compared with 2015. However, there have been decreases in funding for large infrastructure projects and, at a much greater rate, for energy projects to aid economic recovery. We should encourage a focus on green energy and investment.

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