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Parliament's record since 1997: debates, questions, statements, votes, bills, committees and members' interests

Where MPs Stand

Sourced briefings on the record of Parliament

Scrutiny of the draft Environment (Principles and Governance) Bill inquiry

Inquiry by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, 20 December 2018 to 20 December 2018. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 30 January 2019: Professor Maria Lee, Professor of Law and co-director of the Centre for Law and the Environment, UCL, Daniel Greenberg, Council for Domestic Legislation, Office of Speaker's Council, David Wolfe QC, Matrix Chambers, and William Wilson, Barrister and Director, Wyeside Consulting LTD.
  • 6 February 2019: Nigel Haigh, Honorary Fellow and former Director, Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), Edward Lockhart-Mummery, Project Convenor, Broadway Initiative, Professor Colin Reid, Professor of Environmental Law, University of Dundee, and Dr Viviane Gravey, Lecturer, Queen's University, Belfast.
  • 13 February 2019: Ruth Chambers, Senior Parliamentary Associate, Greener UK, Debbie Tripley, Director of Environmental Policy and Advocacy, World Wide Fund for Nature, Dr Tom West, Law and Policy Advisor, Client Earth, and Ali Plummer, Senior Policy Officer, RSPB.
  • 27 February 2019: Andrew Bryce, ABESAC Consultancy and Co-Chair UKELA Brexit Task Force, and Professor Richard Macrory QC, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Law, UCL.
  • 6 March 2019: Emma Howard Boyd, Chair, Environment Agency, Chris Stark, Chief Executive, the Committee on Climate Change, and Alan Law, Deputy Chief Executive, Natural England; Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Dr Thérèse Coffey MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Environment, and Davide Minotti, Deputy Director for the Environment Bill and Governance, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (at 10.30am).