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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

Assessment of EU/UK environmental policy inquiry

Inquiry by the Environmental Audit Committee, 15 October 2015 to 25 August 2016. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 2 December 2015: Professor Maria Lee, Professor of EU Environmental Law, University College London, Dr Sebastian Oberthuer, Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development, Institute for European Studies, and Nigel Haigh, Honorary Fellow, Institute of European Environmental Policy.
  • 16 December 2015: Dr Diane Mitchell, Chief Environment Adviser, National Farmers Union, Angus Evers, Member and Co-convenor of the Waste Working Party, UK Environmental Law Association, Martin Harper, Director of Conservation, The Royal Society for the Protection of BirdsProf Hans Bruyninckx, Executive Director, European Environment Agency, Pieter De Pous, EU Policy Director, European Environmental Bureau, Martin Nesbit, Senior Fellow and Head of Environment and Climate Governance Programme, Institute for European Environmental Policy
  • 6 January 2016: Lloyd Austin, Convenor of Scottish Environment Link’s Governance Task Force, Wildlife and Countryside Link, Trevor Hutchings, Director, UK and EU Advocacy, World Wild Life Fund UK, and Professor Colin Reid, Professor of Environmental Law, University of Dundee Law School; Nick Molho, Executive Director, Aldersgate Group, and Dr Stephanie Merry, Head, Ocean Energy Group, Renewable Energy Association (at 3.15pm).
  • 12 January 2016: Angus Evers, Member and Co-convenor of the Waste Working Party, UK Environmental Law Association, Dr Diane Mitchell, Chief Environment Adviser, National Farmers' Union, and Martin Harper, Director of Conservation, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Susan Danger, Managing Director, American Chamber of Commerce EU (at 10.45am).
  • 13 January 2016: Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director General for the Environment, European Commission, Astrid Schomaker, Director Strategy, Directorate General Environment, European Commission, and Sybille Grohs, Governance & Legal Issues, DG Environment, European Commission.
  • 20 January 2016: Rory Stewart MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Energy and Climate Change, Tom Bastin, Head of the European Union and International Energy Efficiency Team, Robert Hitchen, Head of the Environment Team, European Union Strategy