Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 12 November 2020
12 Nov 2020 · S5 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Environment Bill
The next item of business is a debate on legislative consent motion S5M-23324, in the name of Roseanna Cunningham, on the Environment Bill. I ask members who wish to speak in the debate to press their request-to-speak button now.
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The Deputy Presiding Officer (Lewis Macdonald)
Lab
The next item of business is a debate on legislative consent motion S5M-23324, in the name of Roseanna Cunningham, on the Environment Bill. I ask members who...
The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (Roseanna Cunningham)
SNP
The matter before us today is a legislative consent motion on the United Kingdom Environment Bill. Members cannot be expected to have followed every detail o...
The Deputy Presiding Officer
Lab
I call Gillian Martin to speak on behalf of the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee. 15:39
Gillian Martin (Aberdeenshire East) (SNP)
SNP
As members will remember, the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee’s report on the LCM stopped short of making any recommendation. Members w...
Liz Smith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con)
Con
As the cabinet secretary rightly said, and the convener has just repeated, this LCM results from the UK’s withdrawal from the EU and seeks to put in place th...
Claudia Beamish (South Scotland) (Lab)
Lab
The scourge of Brexit creates a distraction from working on Covid-related matters, net zero and other issues about the future of Scotland. It is very time co...
Mark Ruskell (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Green)
Green
It should be clear to all of us that leaving Europe means that the role of citizens in influencing laws in the European Parliament has now gone. Given that 8...
Liam McArthur (Orkney Islands) (LD)
LD
Scottish Liberal Democrats are committed to doing everything possible to minimise the damaging legacy of Brexit, not least in the area of environmental polic...
The Deputy Presiding Officer
Lab
I invite Roseanna Cunningham to wind up the debate. 15:56
Roseanna Cunningham
SNP
Thank you, Presiding Officer. I appreciate that this debate is not exactly a show-stopper, but it deals with fundamental issues that do not just apply in thi...
The Deputy Presiding Officer
Lab
That concludes the debate on the legislative consent motion on the Environment Bill.
Peter Chapman (North East Scotland) (Con)
Con
On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I failed to inform the chamber of my entry in the register of interests prior to questioning Fergus Ewing earlier. I ...
The Deputy Presiding Officer
Lab
Thank you very much, Mr Chapman. That is duly noted.