PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Environmental Protection: Departmental Coordination (13 November 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's priorities are for the Clean Growth Committee; what role she will have on that committee; and whether that committee will consider her Department's air quality consultation.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster chairs an inter-Ministerial group on Clean Growth, which considers issues relating to air quality and decarbonisation where these have a cross-Departmental aspect. Its members include Ministers and officials from the relevant Departments, including Defra, the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the Department for Transport and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Answered by:
Rory Stewart (Independent)
18 November 2015