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Recommendation 21
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The interim secretariat will be able to make assessments around reported breaches of environmental law...
Conclusion
The interim secretariat will be able to make assessments around reported breaches of environmental law by public bodies. It will then be up to the Office to catch up on these 45 Q 20 46 HM Treasury, The Green Book: Central Government Guidance on Appraisal and Evaluation, 2020 47 Q 59 48 Qq 22, 29 49 Qq 20, 61 50 Qq 20–21 51 Qq 84–85 52 Q 90 14 Achieving government’s long-term environmental goals assessments once it is established.53 However the Department told us that it has laid much of the foundation, including draft frameworks, to ensure that everything will be in place to allow the Office to get going as soon as it is operational.54
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 3 September 2021. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗