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Environmental Governance Consultation Paper inquiry

Inquiry

The Environmental Audit Committee launches an inquiry into the Government’s proposals for a new environmental watchdog and its proposals to bring environmental principles into UK law after leaving the EU.

Reports, special reports and government responses

No reports or special reports published.

Letter from the Exchequer Secretary, Robert Jenrick to Mary Creagh on Environmental Governance Consultation Paper, 4 June 2018
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Correspondence
Letter from the Chair to the Chancellor of the Exchequer requesting oral evidence on the new environmental watchdog, 23 May 2018
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Correspondence

Oral evidence transcripts

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19 June 2018
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Witnesses Rt Hon Lord Deben, Chair, Committee on Climate Change, Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE, Chair, Committee on Climate Change Adaptation Sub-Committee, and Sir Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General.
Oral Evidence
11 July 2018
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Witnesses Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Oral Evidence
12 June 2018
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Witnesses Ruth Davis MBE, Deputy Director of Global Programmes, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , Nick Molho, Executive Director, Aldersgate Group, Ruth Chambers, Senior Parliamentary Affairs Associate, Greener UK , Matthew Farrow, Executive Director, Environmental Industries Commission, and Martin Nesbit, Senior Fellow and Head of Climate and Environmental Governance Programme, Institute for European Environmental Policy; Professor Maria Lee, Professor of law and co-director of UCL Centre for law and the environment, Professor Susan Owens OBE, Emeritus Professor of Environment and Policy, University of Cambridge, Professor Charlotte Burns, Professorial Fellow, University of Sheffield, and Jill Rutter, Programme Director, Institute for Government (at 11.15am).
Oral Evidence
Committee on Climate Change (EGI0040)
Kevin Hyland OBE, Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (EGI0038)
Rob Behrens CBE, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, and Michael King, Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (EGI0039)

Other publications

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