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Source: TheyWorkForYou

URL: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2018-04-24a.308.0

Date: 24/04/2018

Event: James Heappey: people must reduce consumption of "meat, milk, cheese and everything else"

Credit: TheyWorkForYou, also Paul Homewood

People:

• James Heappey, MP: Conservative MP for Wells in Somerset, UK Parliament

[These remarks were made during the Dieter Helm Energy Review, a debate in Westminster Hall at 11:23 am on 24th April 2018.]

James Heappey: Professor Helm also rightly mentioned that there are other areas for decarbonisation where the Government have not yet made as much progress as they might. Some very good things are being talked about within the Minister’s Department and I know that she is a big champion of the decarbonisation of heat and how we do that better. I am a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department for Transport and I know that a lot of work is going on there to look at how we decarbonise transport and the future of mobility.

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is doing great things on waste. I accept the criticism of Professor Helm and others in this place that agriculture has been lagging behind. Representing a farming constituency, I know exactly why that is the case. It will be very challenging when we have to start telling people that they need to reduce their consumption of meat, milk, cheese and everything else in the interest of decarbonisation, but that conversation is surely coming.