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Robert Courts Excerpts
Thursday 7th June 2018

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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My comments to the all-party parliamentary environment group, which were inspired by a very good question from the hon. Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy), were explicitly designed to say that we should not patronise or judge people on poorer incomes for the choices they make. I know that the hon. Member for South Shields (Mrs Lewell-Buck) is very busy, but had she been there she would have had a better understanding of the context in which those comments were made.

Robert Courts Portrait Robert Courts (Witney) (Con)
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What are the Government doing to introduce and increase the use of biodegradable packaging?

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We recognise that biodegradable packaging should be an alternative to existing forms of packaging wherever possible. We are considering how we can change the taxation and regulation of packaging in order to facilitate the use of biodegradable materials.