{"id":999,"date":"2012-03-29T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T11:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2012\/03\/29\/rio20-summit-debated-by-mps\/"},"modified":"2012-03-29T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T11:08:56","slug":"rio20-summit-debated-by-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/rio20-summit-debated-by-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio+20 Summit debated by MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Joan  Walley, Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent and Chair of the Environment Audit  Select Committee, moved a debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday 28  February on the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable  Development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Estimates debate<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The  debate on the funding of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural  Affairs follows the publication of the estimates for the allocation of  expenditure for Central government, including the Department for  Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for the year ending 31 March 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.official-documents.gov.uk\/document\/hc1012\/hc17\/1756\/1756.pdf\">Central government supply estimates 2012-13: vote on account for the year ending 31 March 2013<\/a> (PDF 473KB)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Parliamentary  Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,  Richard Benyon, responded during the debate on behalf of the Government.  Shadow Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Fiona  O&#8217;Donnell, responded during the debate on behalf of the Opposition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Watch  and read the debate on Parliament TV and in Commons Hansard. Also find  more parliamentary material on environmental protection in the Topics  and News sections on the Parliament website.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliamentlive.tv\/Main\/Player.aspx?meetingId=10280&amp;st=19:27:25\">Parliament TV: Rio+20 Summit debated by MPs<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201212\/cmhansrd\/cm120228\/debtext\/120228-0003.htm#12022886000002\">Commons Hansard: Rio+20 Summit debated by MPs<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/topics\/Environmental-protection.htm\">Topics: Environmental protection<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/news\/energy-and-environment\/environmental-protection\/\">News: Environmental protection<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Rio+20 Summit<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The  Environmental Audit Committee held an inquiry into preparations for the  Rio+20 United Nations conference on sustainable development and  published its report on 26 October 2011. The Government Response to the  Committee report was published on 16 January 2012. Further information  can be found on the Environmental Audit Committee webpages.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/environmental-audit-committee\/inquiries\/parliament-2010\/rio-20\/\">Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into preparations for the Rio+20 Summit<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/environmental-audit-committee\/\">Environmental Audit Committee<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Estimate days<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">All  public spending has to be approved by Parliament. Estimates of spending  are presented to parliament and three &#8216;estimates days&#8217; are set aside  each year to debate the content of those estimates presented. In  practice, estimates days are often used for debating one or more  estimates or select committee reports chosen by the Liaison Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>Original article published at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/news\/2012\/february\/mps-debate-rio-20-summit\/\" rel=\"noopener\">www.parliament.co.uk<\/a><\/em><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Walley, Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent and Chair of the Environment Audit Select Committee, moved a debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday 28 February on the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}