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HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]I rise to speak to Amendment 87 in this group, and I am very grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Parminter and Lady Browning, and the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for their…30 Oct 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]I rise briefly to support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Gascoigne, on the use of nature-based solutions. The noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, mentioned a river in…30 Oct 2024HANSARDIndependent Water CommissionMy Lords, like everybody, I very much welcome this report. However, point 12 says that the Government are specifically ruling out looking at agriculture at the moment. Given that…29 Oct 2024HANSARDWaste: IncinerationCurrently, we are incinerating over a million tonnes of food waste a year, as well as 64,000 tonnes of potentially edible food that gets sent to anaerobic digesters; the latter in…22 Oct 2024HANSARDEarly Years Provision: Bell ReviewMy Lords, we have just come to the end of a report on ultra-processed and HFSS foods. When it comes to early years nutrition, it is quite a Wild West out there. For a start, we…21 Oct 2024 Bills sponsored (2)