Extract from Business
Questions
(Walsall South)
(Lab):...Will the Leader of the House clarify policy,
because the Government have been saying different things?
Parliament passed the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act
2018 with an amendment on public registers. The Act said that
such registers would be introduced by 2020 if the overseas territories had not done so
voluntarily, and yet a Minister has said that the Government will
have
“a requirement for an operational public register by 2023”.
That is three years later than the House agreed and five years
after Parliament voted to take action on the issue. Will she
clarify that?
Extract from Lords
debate on Climate Change
(LD):...Why
should we in the UK care about coral reefs? The answers are:
biodiversity; new medicines; fishing to feed millions; that the
loss of low-lying islands means the relocation of people; and
that the UK has several overseas territories with coral
reefs. Is the UK prepared for increased frequency and intensity
of coral bleaching events? What if we start to lose some of
our overseas territories due to the
erosion of coral reefs? Many of these places support human
populations and some house military bases that we share with
allies. Will the Government respond to the latest research and
revise their emission targets to halt the speed at which ocean
warming events are occurring? I agree with the noble Lord, Lord
Rees, that the Paris Agreement is not enough—it will be too
little too late...
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