19:30 Lindsay Hoyle (Other)

(i) achieve reductions of greenhouse gas emissions in line with the carbon budgets set under the Climate Change Act 2008;

(ii) meet current national policy objectives on assessing the risk of and adapting to climate change, in relation to that area.’.

(b) climate mitigation and adaptation and in particular flood risk;

(a) achieve reductions of greenhouse gas emissions in line with the carbon budgets set under the Climate Change Act 2008;

(b) meet current national policy objectives on assessing the risk of and adapting to climate change, in relation to that area.’.

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20:30 Greg Clark (Vale of Glamorgan) (Con)

I think hon. Members will be satisfied with our approach. I have long regarded the matter as a personal interest, having shadowed the energy and climate change brief in opposition, and there is nothing in our approach that does anything other than enhance matters. By clarifying, and taking away much of the undergrowth around, planning policy, it will make more resonant the principles that the hon. Lady, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington and my Liberal Democrat hon. Friends so rightly want to promote.

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