Oral QuestionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

What the implications are for his policy on air quality of the report of the Committee on Climate Change, Reducing UK emissions - 2018 Progress Report to Parliament.

Tabled: 9 July 2018Answered: 12 July 2018

Asked by

Rachael Maskell

Labour (Co-op)York Central

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Answer from Hansard

Michael Shanks

I congratulate the school in my hon. Friend’s constituency. It will start to receive money off its bills immediately, which of course can then be reinvested into delivering exactly what we want schools to be delivering: better teaching facilities and resources for schoolchildren. When I visited a school that had GBE solar panels on its roof, I learned that the children had had a number of lessons on clean energy; they had learned about how sustainability was improving their school and about the wider impacts on the planet. That is an important curriculum benefit.