Exiting the European Union (Transport)

Debate between Chris Bryant and Michael Ellis

Tuesday 23rd July 2019 Commons Chamber

[Michael Ellis]

I am so grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point. Of course, everything that I do in the Department for Transport considers these important issues of climate change, and my officials are very alive to this issue.

[Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab)]

Very frequently in the measure, the words “notified body” are replaced with “approved body”. Why is that so common a feature?

[Michael Ellis]

I am going to come to that right now.

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[Michael Ellis]

I always look like this.

[Chris Bryant]

No, the Minister does not always look quite like that. This proves yet again what many of us have felt for a long time: that Brexit is proving far more complicated than anybody ever thought it would be, and is using an awful lot of our time and energy. Whether it will produce anything more than wind is difficult to know.