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Government provides perspective on EU/UK environmental policy assessment

14 January 2016

Environmental Audit Committee holds evidence session with Government representatives on the assessment of EU/UK environmental policy.

Witnesses

Wednesday 20 January in the Thatcher room, Portcullis House

At 2.30 pm

  • Rory Stewart MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  • Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change

Purpose of session

This is to inform the debate ahead of the referendum on EU membership that the Government has committed to holding by the end of 2017, following a renegotiation of the UK's terms of membership.

This will be a single-panel evidence session covering the Government's perspective on the inquiry. The witnesses include Rory Stewart MP, Parliamentary-Under Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Further information

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