Environment Protection: EU Law

(asked on 8th December 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the new measures to protect the environment through the Environment Act will be commenced before parallel measures are revoked in the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 26th January 2023

The Secretary of State has already set out her approach to remove legislation superfluous to the UK, review the effectiveness of EU regulation in achieving environmental outcomes and retain, by default, environmental legislation for the UK to achieve existing environmental outcomes.

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