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HANSARD Convention on Biodiversity COP15: OutcomesI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement. The agreement signed in Montreal this morning to protect 30% of the planet for nature and restore 30% of the…19 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceYesterday I spoke to a paramedic who had been with a patient with sepsis, waiting for two and a half hours to be taken in. There were 98 calls at that same Yorkshire hospital…06 Dec 2022HANSARDWaste Incineration: Permit VariationIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Efford. I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak for Labour, which I do in place of my hon. Friend the Member for…01 Dec 2022HANSARDGreening the Financial SystemMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. There is a real role to play for public finances—contracts for difference and national funding—but we also see private finance coming…30 Nov 2022HANSARDAvian Influenza OutbreakIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir George. I join other Members in congratulating the right hon. Member for Maldon (Sir John Whittingdale) on securing this…30 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Seventh sitting)I will be brief, as we have many clauses to get through. Clause 18 abolishes the business impact target in the annual report that the Conservative Government themselves introduced…29 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Seventh sitting)We have already debated how the Bill grants Ministers sweeping powers; we now come to clause 19, which looks like it literally and explicitly allows Ministers to do anything they…29 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Seventh sitting)I shall speak briefly to schedule 2. The need for the Government to act with devolved authorities when provisions are outside the devolution settlement makes a lot of sense. We…29 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 88, in schedule 3, page 31, line 6, leave out from “15” to the end of line 8 and insert— “(d) regulations under section 16.” This amendment, together with…29 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Seventh sitting)We have already spoken at length about the lack of effective parliamentary scrutiny provided for in the Bill. Our amendments 88 and 89 would ensure that any instruments made by…29 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Seventh sitting)I want to just pick up on the idea that before 2016, or before early 2020 anyway, the regulations that we are talking about were somehow just created out of thin air—that an EU…29 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Seventh sitting)That is a theme running through the whole Bill. First, Ministers want to take powers for themselves—for the Executive—and away from Parliament. I understand that the Executive in…29 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Seventh sitting)As we do not know, there might be more than 4,000 of these regulations. We would all like lists of the various different types of regulations; I would certainly like to see which…29 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Eighth sitting)It is helpful that the Minister has given us some insight into the work of the National Archives. When does he think those regulations—whether orphaned or not—will appear on the…29 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 79, in clause 7, page 4, line 32, at end insert— “(d) the undesirability of disturbing settled understandings of the law, on the basis of which individuals…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fifth sitting)I know from my brief in the shadow DEFRA team that some very important enforcement actions are extrapolated from European case law, because we were under the aegis of the European…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fifth sitting)We will not push the amendment to a vote, but the Minister did not give us sufficient clarification. I am sure that when we progress we will continue to hear the opinions of other…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fifth sitting)Absolutely. Agencies such as the Environment Agency, Natural England and the Office for Environmental Protection use these regulations and case law all the time. They have evolved…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fifth sitting)Having seen the opinions of different agencies—my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow mentioned the Office for Environmental Protection—and heard the evidence of the Bar…24 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fifth sitting)I fear we may be straying into future debates. I will not take much longer—I take your lead, Sir George. We will have further discussions about burdens and regression, so I will…24 Nov 2022