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Jo Churchill

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Tuesday 21st February 2017

(7 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alan Duncan Portrait Sir Alan Duncan
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The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy leads on science, but this will be an essential part of the negotiations we conduct with the European Union after we have triggered article 50.

Jo Churchill Portrait Jo Churchill (Bury St Edmunds) (Con)
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17. May I ask the Minister to ensure that scientific co-operation in Europe is extended to the preservation of threatened species?

Alan Duncan Portrait Sir Alan Duncan
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I do not see why not, especially as my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary is living proof that the woolly mammoth can return from extinction.

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