| Heading: |
Great British Energy: Environment Protection |
| Question ID: |
1758120 |
| UIN: |
HL4293 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4098 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Coffey
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Baroness Coffey
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend the environmental principles duty to apply to the proposed Great British Energy company. |
| Is named day: |
false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
2024 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
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| Answering Member handle: |
lordphilofbrum
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@lordphilofbrum
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| Answer text: |
Under the environmental principles duty set out in the Environment Act 2021, ministers and policy makers must consider the environmental principles when making policy. Ministers and Officials working on the establishment of Great British Energy (GBE) have... |
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| Answering body ID: |
215 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Tweeted: |
true |