I would be grateful if the hon. Lady could confirm that she welcomes the ambition in the Bill to be the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than it inherited, but does she also agree that that means that the Bill should reflect a non-regression principle—in other words, that our environmental standards should not fall below what we currently have?
Environment Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Antoinette Sandbach
(Independent (affiliation))
in the House of Commons on Monday, 28 October 2019.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Environment Bill.
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