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HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Third sitting)Q The River Wharfe in my constituency and in Robbie’s has significant sewage outflows when it rains, with E. coli levels 40 to 50 times the EU bathing water limit. Only 14% of our…12 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q The Government have brought forward legislation to ban certain types of single-use plastics, including straws, cotton buds and stirrers. Last year I ran a campaign in my…12 Mar 2020HANSARDFreedom of Religion or BeliefI praise the hon. Gentleman for his dogged determination in bringing debates on this subject to the House and pursuing these issues. Does he agree that the media abroad and in the…12 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q It is interesting that this is the first panel where we have had representatives from the ownership and the workforce of the industry. The chemicals industry is huge in this…12 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q I will speak to two areas. First, when I engage with people in both the food and drink industry and the waste compressing industry, one issue is the lack of reprocessing…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q I just have one question. I think there is general consensus that we do not want a lower standard of environmental protection after the end of the end of the transition and the…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q I have a second question on air quality. The Mayor of London has committed to reach World Health Organisation standards by 2030. The Bill fails to set legally binding targets.…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q And you are not finding it in the Bill as yet? Rico Wojtulewicz: No, we are not. The difficulty is that you need to ask yourself whether a local authority really knows what it…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q Following on from that question, clearly the duties of the OEP in investigation and enforcement are very important. We have a regulatory environment that finishes in December…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q This is a different subject, but something you alluded to earlier was the need for a broader strategic aim. Other countries have an overarching environmental objective as part…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q I have just one question—I know we have had a long sitting, because of the vote. The clauses on environmental principles have been widely criticised for being creatures of…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q First, I am particularly concerned with the new duty in clause 54 that local authorities are going to have to collect food waste every week. Most local authorities now have…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q The Bill creates space, as you said, for local nature recovery strategies, which can be used in both the planning and development phases. During those phases, who will have…10 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GI associate myself with much of what the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) has said. Much of Britain’s security future is not invested in…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFloodingI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, as the Secretary of State was unable to do so. We have funding for a flood defence scheme in my constituency, but one of the…04 Mar 2020HANSARDSchool Admissions ProcessOne simple change that would help to create a sufficiency of places would be for the Government to allow local authorities to build schools directly again. There is a lack of…27 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillThe speech by the hon. Member for Meriden (Saqib Bhatti) does him great credit, and I am sure he will have a long and illustrious career in this House. I will give him one piece…26 Feb 2020HANSARD CoronavirusAs the House knows, I was in self-isolation last week because Harry Horton of ITV alerted me to the fact that there had been a confirmed case at the UK bus summit, which I…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Equality of Funding: Post-16 EducationThe Yorkshire College of Beauty Therapy is in my constituency. It is suffering from the fact that the new T-levels in the relevant subjects are being introduced but are not yet…25 Feb 2020HANSARDFloodingOver the last three weekends, Otley, in my constituency, has seen the worst flooding since Boxing day 2015. A £2 million alleviation scheme is due to be completed this year, but…24 Feb 2020