COP Climate Negotiations: Cities

Debate between Lord Moynihan and Lord Spellar

Wednesday 14th January 2026 Lords Chamber

[Lord Spellar (Lab)]

My Lords, will there not be greater support for these measures from the citizens of those cities and towns in the UK if they can see the benefit coming through to them in their work? What steps are the Government, and those towns and cities when they are commissioning work, taking to ensure that, whenever possible, the work is sourced from the United Kingdom, unlike so many cities that are, for example, buying buses from China with all the other attendant issues?

[Lord Moynihan (Con)]

My Lords—