VoteClimate: Leaving the EU: Protection for Workers - 6th March 2019

Leaving the EU: Protection for Workers - 6th March 2019

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Leaving the EU: Protection for Workers.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-03-06/debates/0FB6B758-CCD7-47B0-B189-56CE7C3EA177/LeavingTheEUProtectionForWorkers

13:53 Rebecca Long-Bailey (Labour)

My hon. Friend is quite right. Again, the provisions adopted by the Climate Change Act 2008 were not required by the European Union. They were a set of decisions that were taken by this House, and that has been our record. The proposals that I have set out allow us to continue to do that, while making sure that the House is not only properly informed but required to make an explicit determination that, if there are new policies that are adopted and directives that are proposed, they are debated and considered in this House. That seems to me to be a good mechanism to ensure that we are always aware of what is being done in the European Union after we have left it.

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