Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:57 pm on 9 July 2024.
Jenny Rathbone
Labour
3:57,
9 July 2024
—concerns from Delyth Jewell about the disused tip spill, because on the principle of regulation being that the polluter should remain responsible for the environmental harm of its actions, going forward, how could that be made to apply to companies like Monsanto, which have now left these shores? And have you had the opportunity to discuss with the new UK Labour Government how their attitude towards coal-tip responsibility will not, of course, be the outrageous position of the previous UK Government, where it was nothing to do with them, even though—
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