VoteClimate: Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council - 16th November 2016

Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council - 16th November 2016

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-11-16/debates/16111648000010/OverseasTerritoriesJointMinisterialCouncil

The Minister for Europe and the Americas (Sir Alan Duncan)

The key themes of discussion at this year’s council were the implications of the UK leaving the European Union, international trade and building the economic development of the territories, anti-corruption and beneficial ownership, governance, human rights and child safeguarding, climate change, pensions and health. Ministerial colleagues from the Departments for International Development, Exiting the European Union, International Trade, Health, Work and Pensions, and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, as well as the Solicitor General, attended the discussions. The Minister for Europe and the Americas, my right hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton (Sir Alan Duncan), met the Member of the Falklands Islands Legislative Assembly. Territory leaders also met the Foreign Secretary.

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