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HANSARDWarm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025My Lords, I thank the Minister for presenting the draft regulations before us. I am conscious that this is not her department. Nevertheless, with her Cumbrian background—not just…03 Sept 2025HANSARDWarm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025I thank the Minister for her response. There were a few questions, which I believe her officials will have noted. I appreciate that UC and DWP are different, but the Secondary…03 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI think that is right. The HSE, on its own website, refers to the fact that it cannot comment on every application and, in effect, needs to be proactively contacted only if there…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, with respect to the Minister—I appreciate the answer he has given me— there is one point that perhaps it would be worthwhile DESNZ genuinely looking at. There is no…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I agree with my noble friend Lord Lansley’s approach of being specific about what it is that developers and investors should be looking at instead of what the latest…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, we will return to a lot of this in Part 3 of the Bill, so I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI specifically wanted to speak to the funding of issues such as energy projects. This issue, probably more than anything else—perhaps the fact that the national grid is part-owned…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 94E, but I start with Amendment 77 and simply say that I completely agree with the noble Earl, Lord Russell. We are not talking about the…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I speak particularly to the amendments that I have tabled in this group. It is fair to say that the Forestry Commission is quite an unusual organisation—it is a…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for her comprehensive answer on the variety of schemes and community benefits, bill discounts and similar. I am disappointed that she does not think…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, in speaking to my Amendment 94B regarding permission for energy substations on higher quality agricultural land, I will also speak to Amendment 94A, tabled by my noble…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 82C; I have also tabled a number of other amendments in this group. In essence, this amendment considers bill discounts and community benefits.…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI beg leave to withdraw the amendment.01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, again, I have split this amendment off from the other consideration of energy infrastructure projects. To cut to the chase, we need to make sure, bearing on some of the…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am sympathetic to what my noble friend Lord Swire just said. I think it is fair to say that it was actually the previous Conservative Administration who changed…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, we are in the final stretch, and I will not be at all insulted if people choose to vacate at this stage of proceedings, recognising that we are past the usual hour. But…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI am sure that the heat that my noble friend was about to allude to will make it attractive to certain kinds of rapid acceleration of growth. It is not the only thing that would…01 Sept 2025