Environment Principles Policy Statement duty with Ed and Simon

Tulika Gupta, DESNZ interviews Ed Dyson and Simon Mundy from DEFRA on the EPPS duty under the Environment Act 2021 and our roles as policy makers and lawyers in applying this duty.

Ed Dyson is joint head of the Environmental Principles Team, which supports the implementation across government of the environmental principles duty in the Environment Act 2021. In addition to work on a wide range of policies in DEFRA, and secondments to HM Treasury and the former Department for International Development, his experience includes a research scholarship in wildlife management in Japan, and a secondment to the Deer Initiative advising on wild deer management in England and Wales.

Simon Mundy MBE (DEFRA Legal Advisers, Government Legal Department) is a Senior Lawyer working in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where he has helped to deliver major changes to environmental legislation and policy in the UK. He has served in the Civil Service for 33 years both as a lawyer and (originally) as a chemist, whilst simultaneously undertaking charitable work in his local community as a school governor for over 20 years.

This podcast is a combined effort of CSCEN and Greener GLD, a green society of the Government Legal Department.