Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 2:35 pm on 25 October 2022.

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Photo of Robin Walker Robin Walker The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland 2:35, 25 October 2022

My hon. Friend is doing a great job. It is right that, six and a half years after the referendum, we should get on with the process of taking control of our laws.

I served for two years in the Department for Exiting the European Union and gave many assurances in those years that, as we left the EU, our environmental standards and animal welfare regulations would be improved and strengthened, not weakened. Will he assure me that Ministers at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will meet the Conservative Environment Network and our Wildlife Trusts to ensure that nothing is done in the process of the Bill to undermine our leadership in the nature protection space?