Surely the danger of allowing each country to conduct its own cost-benefit analysis is that it would take only one country to feel that, for it, the cost was outweighing the benefit for all of them to start trying to wriggle out of their international obligations, and to be deterred from entering into any future such obligations. Might it not be better for the UK Government to conduct an analysis across the piece?
Antarctic Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Philip Davies
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 18 January 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Antarctic Bill.
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2012-13
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