My Lords, reflecting on the Minister’s response to my noble friend on the current Prime Minister’s record on air pollution, would she acknowledge that it was the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, who in February 2008 unveiled the plans for the London cycle hire scheme? Will she also acknowledge that the New Bus for London, commonly known as the “Boris bus”, had complete battery failure in 80 models, meaning that they only ever operated in diesel-only mode and emitted 74% more harmful particles than the old diesel buses they replaced?
Environment Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
(Green Party)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 5 July 2021.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Environment Bill.
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