Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mary Creagh and David Davis

Thursday 1st December 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mary Creagh (Wakefield) (Lab)]

T6. In evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs revealed that between a quarter and a third of the UK’s environmental legislation that comes from the EU will not be neatly transposed through the great repeal Bill. Will the Secretary of State tell the House whether legislation to protect our air and improve our water quality, and to set waste and chemical standards for products going into the EU, will be part of the great repeal Bill, or will we have to wait for legislation after we leave?

[Mr David Davis]

That will be part of the great repeal Bill. If there is any amendment, I would think it would be done through primary legislation in the House.