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However, parties are able to voluntarily give up a seat for an independent MP or an MP from a different party, such as when the Green party's Caroline Lucas was given a spot on the Environmental Audit Committee from 2015 to 2024.

Gardiner, who sits on Parliament's environmental audit committee, argued there was a limit to what technological could achieve.

The government has commissioned an environmental audit of the impact of the oil industry, but the results are yet to be made public more than a year later than expected.

Professor Lea Berrang Ford of the UK Health Security Agency told the Environmental Audit Committee there is insufficient evidence that naming heatwaves is effective.

Philip Dunne MP, chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, called the labelling findings a potentially very serious allegation.