Green Economic Recovery

Lord Fowler Excerpts
Monday 14th December 2020

(3 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan (Con)
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I agree with the noble Lord that retraining will play an important part. We recently launched the Green Jobs Taskforce to support it. It will look at the key challenges faced by employers and workers in supporting a green recovery, ensuring that we have the right pipeline of talent and skills provision.

Lord Fowler Portrait The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)
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Baroness Walmsley?

Lord Ashton of Hyde Portrait Lord Ashton of Hyde (Con)
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The noble Baroness needs to unmute.

Lord Fowler Portrait The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)
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We shall go on because we cannot hear the noble Baroness.

Baroness Hayman Portrait Baroness Hayman (CB) [V]
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My Lords—[Inaudible.]

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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan (Con)
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My noble friend makes an excellent point. He will be aware that in the 10-point plan we are doubling the green recovery challenge fund with an extra £40 million. Nature recovery can indeed help us to mitigate and adapt to climate change by capturing carbon and providing other environmental benefits. My noble friend’s point is very well made.

Lord Fowler Portrait The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)
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If the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, is still with us, I am quite prepared to take her question now.

I think we can take it that she is not. All supplementary questions have been asked, which brings Question Time to an end.