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HANSARDWarm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025That the Grand Committee do consider the Warm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025. Relevant document: 30th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee03 Sept 2025HANSARDWarm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025My Lords, these regulations were laid before the House on 19 June 2025. Before I proceed, I draw the Committee’s attention to a correction slip that was issued on 4 July in…03 Sept 2025HANSARDWarm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025I am sure that the noble Earl and his colleagues are aware that we have made a very strong commitment to nuclear energy and are pushing forward on that in a way that previous…03 Sept 2025HANSARDWarm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this important debate on an important issue for their contributions and for the broad support that the Committee has…03 Sept 2025HANSARDAnimals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023The Civil Service animal welfare team in Defra is extremely committed and works incredibly hard. This is a very broad area, with many areas of animal welfare that we are working…01 Sept 2025HANSARDAnimals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023I am determined to look at what makes the biggest difference. The whole essence of my approach to animal welfare is what makes the biggest difference, where are the most animals…01 Sept 2025HANSARDAnimals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023I would imagine that is probably an education piece.01 Sept 2025HANSARDAnimals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023I assume that the activities the noble Lord is referring to regarding zoos are high-welfare activities. As I said, we are looking at how best to bring legislation forward. For any…01 Sept 2025HANSARDAnimals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023I am aware of what the noble Lord is talking about regarding deforestation. I have been working with Minister Creagh from the other place on this and we are looking at the best…01 Sept 2025HANSARDAnimals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023I am so sorry to disappoint the noble Baroness, but I cannot give her a date. All I can say is that it is something I am actively looking at and working on. We are shortly going…01 Sept 2025HANSARDAnimals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023I congratulate the noble Lord on sponsoring the Bill; I was very happy to support him. I point out that it may be two years since the legislation, but I have not been the Minister…01 Sept 2025HANSARDAnimals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023One reason I talked about non-legislative options is that we want to stop people buying such holidays in the first place. One problem is that, when people book a holiday with an…01 Sept 2025HANSARDAnimals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023The noble Lord is correct. As he is aware, I strongly supported the then Bill when it went through Parliament, because I do not want to see the abuse of animals in any…01 Sept 2025HANSARDAnimals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023My Lords, the Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023 provides a framework for the introduction of future bans on the advertising and offering for sale, in England and…01 Sept 2025HANSARDIndependent Water CommissionI thank noble Lords for their broad support for the recommendations that have come out of the Cunliffe report. This is a very important step forward in cleaning up our waterways.…23 Jul 2025HANSARDIndependent Water CommissionAny new board must have the right expertise if it is to deliver what we want for the industry. The noble Lord makes a very important point that whatever that expertise is, we must…23 Jul 2025HANSARDIndependent Water CommissionOn the timetabling, clearly, it is not something we can bring in this Session. We do not yet know when the end of the Session will be—we have not been informed about that—but when…23 Jul 2025HANSARDIndependent Water CommissionThe noble Baroness is correct: we have ruled out nationalisation. But if she would like to share the paperwork, I would be more than happy to look at it.23 Jul 2025HANSARDIndependent Water CommissionI would just say to my noble friend that we have discussed this on a number of occasions, including with officials in the department. I am sure that we will continue to discuss it.23 Jul 2025HANSARDIndependent Water CommissionThe noble Lord makes an extremely good point. Part of the reason why we have got into this mess is the focus on keeping bills low. People do not want to pay high bills, but if you…23 Jul 2025