Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:00 pm on 25 October 2022.

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Photo of Caroline Lucas Caroline Lucas Green, Brighton, Pavilion 3:00, 25 October 2022

The hon. Member is giving a powerful speech. On environmental regulation, does he agree that this could be a very good test of the credibility of the Office for Environmental Protection? If the Government really are assured that there is no environmental risk, they should have no worries at all about referring the Bill to it. The OEP is already deeply worried about the workload in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and about the number of pieces of legislation that should be coming forward but are not.