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HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (First sitting)Q In your initial response, you said that we should replace the laws quickly. In your view, with 2,100 or so regulations, how quickly can Parliament include those laws in UK law?…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Second sitting)Q Ruth, do you have a view on assessment and capacity on behalf of your members of the Green Alliance? Ruth Chambers: Absolutely, and I endorse what Rich has just said. One other…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Second sitting)Q I could get into a debate about the numbers, but we have explored that quite a lot. I have a number of concerns about clause 15 and the sort of power grab that it makes.…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Second sitting)Q I want to delve down with an example—particularly as I am a shadow DEFRA Minister—and also declare my interest as the parliamentary champion for white-clawed crayfish. One of…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Second sitting)Q Phoebe, your organisation is used to doing this sort of work. What is your capacity and what do you think? Phoebe Clay: Looking further from that list, one important facet of…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Second sitting)Q That is quite stark, isn’t it? We are talking about 10 months—maybe 11 if we are lucky—to look at 44 pieces of legislation just for animal welfare, as well as all the devolution…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you want to come in on the animal welfare aspect, David? David Bowles: I concur with everything that has been said. Two years from now will mark the 50th anniversary of the…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Second sitting)Q These regulations cover huge areas in the DEFRA brief, including habitats regulations, environmental protections, and animal welfare and standards. First, I would like to hear…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Second sitting)Q My question follows on from what Jack was talking about earlier: the lack of parliamentary scrutiny and how it will be up to Ministers to make decisions on what we now…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (First sitting)Q I will put this question to you, George, as it is something of a follow-up. You just gave a qualitative response about the sunset-clausing, but this is more of a quantitative…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (First sitting)Q I wanted to put this question to Sir Stephen Laws, but I will put it to both of you. He talked about the fact that, were regulations sunsetted and not replaced, people would…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (First sitting)Q First of all, as a shadow DEFRA Minister, we were expecting 570 regulations. I would like to know whether we will have any more, but that is an aside. As I said to Sir Stephen…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (First sitting)Q Even if the Bill has an extremely smooth run, we will have less than a year between Royal Assent and the sunset clause coming into force at the end of 2023. What are the…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (First sitting)Q At the moment, it is important for business and the finance sector to have clarity in the law, which to an extent we get from retained EU laws. With the sunset clause and the…08 Nov 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresThe Home Secretary’s letter today outlined six breaches. She used a personal device to send official emails, using a personal Gmail address. When I receive emails through Gmail, I…31 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThank you, Mr Speaker: I was beginning to lose hope. The previous Prime Minister made a promise on Northern Powerhouse Rail, but when the announcement came it did not include a…13 Oct 2022HANSARDSewage DischargesOf course, there are not any shareholders in Welsh Water; it is owned by the people of Wales. On some of these issues, Welsh Water is performing exceedingly well as a water…12 Oct 2022HANSARDSewage DischargesFirst, I congratulate you, Ms Elliott, on the way that you have chaired this debate and on getting everybody in, which has been excellent. What a task! Secondly, I welcome the…12 Oct 2022HANSARD Mahsa AminiI do not know whether the Minister saw Beth Rigby’s interview this weekend with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, but it was a gut-wrenching and emotional interview. In it, Nazanin said…11 Oct 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank the Leader of the House for making time today to debate the situation in Ukraine, but in the last few weeks we have seen an escalation in military violence between Armenia…22 Sept 2022