VoteClimate: Trade Deals: Parliamentary Scrutiny - 12th October 2022

Trade Deals: Parliamentary Scrutiny - 12th October 2022

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Trade Deals: Parliamentary Scrutiny.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-10-12/debates/BC722838-784B-45F1-B6B0-3E313EB300F6/TradeDealsParliamentaryScrutiny

17:29 Ruth Cadbury (Labour)

The Secretary of State has been critical of the Government’s own net zero pledge, calling it “arbitrary”. Perhaps that is why they might wish to avoid any scrutiny. When the Prime Minister was Secretary of State for International Trade, she selectively released partial polling data, only to be rebuked by the British Polling Council. We saw her ignore officials’ advice about the impact of the UK-Australia deal on UK farmers.

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