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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the systems required to ensure that the environmental principles set out in the Environment Bill inform relevant Ministerial policy making.

The Environment Bill places a new legal duty on Ministers to have due regard to the environmental principles policy statement when making policy across Government. The policy statement will provide clarity on the interpretation and application of the environmental principles to the policy-making process. These principles will also be embedded into existing government policy making guidance, including HM Treasury’s Green Book.