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Barry Gardiner Excerpts
Tuesday 25th October 2022

(1 year, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Graham Stuart Portrait Graham Stuart
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We have an assessment process for all new licences to look at that and see its overall impact.

Barry Gardiner Portrait Barry Gardiner (Brent North) (Lab)
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T8. The Minister accused this side of the House of misrepresenting the figures on climate change, but it is the independent Climate Change Committee that says that the Government are not on track to achieve net zero and that 61% of their own targets for emission reductions have no credible plan in place to achieve them. Is the committee also misrepresenting the facts?

Graham Stuart Portrait Graham Stuart
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We are on track. [Interruption.] We are on track and we are focused on delivering that. The margins are tighter than we would like, but we are on track, we have delivered to date and we will deliver in future.