Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Grahame Morris and Michael Gove

Thursday 25th January 2018 Commons Chamber

[Michael Gove]

We are anxious to make sure that, across the EU, we have the right targets. One of the flaws with the EU system, as I acknowledged earlier, is that because of its reliance on measuring through weight, it sometimes incentivises the wrong approaches. I am confident that our own country has gone further than the European Union has requested or suggested on everything from banning microplastics to looking at taxes on single-use plastics and, indeed, introducing the charge on plastic bags. In all those areas we have shown that we have gone further and faster than the EU, and of course that is the Government’s ambition for a truly green Brexit.

[Grahame Morris (Easington) (Lab)]

2. What assessment he has made of the extent to which trail hunting is used as a cover to conduct illegal fox hunting.