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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 May 2019
Environment and Climate Change

"My hon. Friend makes a very good point, and I shall come on to it in a moment. At the heart of the environment and climate emergency is the issue of justice, and it is those here and around the world who are least to blame for it who bear …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 May 2019
Environment and Climate Change

"I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. I will come on to the work done by the previous Labour Government, which did so much to try and bring about awareness of the climate emergency. We have the chance to bring new manufacturing and engineering jobs to places that have never …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 May 2019
Environment and Climate Change

"The hon. Gentleman is right that that must be a high priority. I will be coming on to it towards the end of my speech, but he is correct that forests not only sustain a high level of biodiversity, but are a huge source of carbon capture, locking it up …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 May 2019
Environment and Climate Change

"Indeed. My hon. Friend knows my views on that. I attended a public meeting in a village in Derbyshire to discuss fracking, and I was impressed by the fact that all the people there were determined to improve their environment and wanted a form of energy generation that is more …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 May 2019
Environment and Climate Change

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The message is that we need to do far more in this country, but we also need to carry that message elsewhere. I cannot be the only person in this House who is very disappointed by the statements made by President Bolsonaro of Brazil …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union

"On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Tonight this House has once again definitely ruled out no deal. The Prime Minister said that the choice was between her deal and no deal. In the past 24 hours, Parliament has decisively rejected both her deal and no deal. While an extension …..."
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Written Question
Animal Products: Israel
Wednesday 25th March 2015

Asked by: Jeremy Corbyn (Independent - Islington North)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she has taken to ensure that animal products originating in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory are not imported into the UK with sanitary or phytosanitary certification issued by the Israeli authorities; and when those steps were taken.

Answered by George Eustice

Products of animal origin (POAO) imported from third countries must have been produced to standards at least equivalent to those in the European Union (EU). The European Commission's Food and Veterinary Office is responsible for carrying out inspections in the third countries from which POAO is imported. POAO from third countries must:

· come from an approved country;

· come from an approved establishment/plant;

· be accompanied by appropriate animal and public health certification;

· enter the EU through a Border Inspection Post (BIP) where checks are carried out to ensure that import conditions have been met.

Israel is approved for a number of different categories of animal product. This approval is limited to Israel and does not include the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Written Question
Animal Products: Israel
Monday 23rd February 2015

Asked by: Jeremy Corbyn (Independent - Islington North)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has agreed arrangements with the Israeli government to ensure that all animal products exported from Israel to the UK originate wholly within Israel and not from Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Answered by George Eustice

This Department has had no discussions with Israel about accepting animal products from the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

The rules for the importation of animal products are laid down in European Union (EU) animal and public health legislation. Imports are only accepted from approved third countries. The decision to approve a third country is made at an EU level and is based on the animal and public health status of the country concerned.

Israel is approved for a number of different categories of animal product. This approval is limited to Israel and does not include the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 04 Sep 2014
Sale of Puppies and Kittens

"The hon. Gentleman will have heard an earlier intervention about the problems of local authority funding. Does he agree that there must be sufficient public officials to examine how these breeding establishments operate, because without that, this travesty of justice for the animals will continue?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 08 May 2014
Overseas Territories (Sustainability)

"I compliment my hon. Friend on her work and that of the Environmental Audit Committee. As I understand it, the Aarhus convention suggests that the local population should be included in discussions about protected areas and environmental protection, but that clearly did not happen in the case of the British …..."
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