Monday 10th July 2017

(7 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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I am happy to let my hon. Friend know that we have indeed also been having discussions with New Zealand. This is an issue I think we can progress with a number of other members of the Commonwealth—not just New Zealand, but Canada.

Catherine West Portrait Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green) (Lab)
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What concrete steps will the Government take next to get climate change back in the discussion with the US Administration?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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We raise this issue regularly with the US Administration, but, crucially, there was a very clear message from everybody sitting around the table at the G20 to the US Administration about the importance we all placed on the climate change agreement—on the Paris agreement—and on the US being a member of it.