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HANSARDPrivate Low-carbon Investment: Green Finance Institute ReportMy Lords, does the Minister not share my disappointment that his Government have no plans to review the level of the warm homes discount? Given that there does not seem to be any…09 Dec 2024HANSARDGreenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024My Lords, I thank the Minister for setting out the contents of the instrument so concisely but comprehensively. I support it but have a number of questions. Obviously, the issue…02 Dec 2024HANSARDProducer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024I had one quick question about the policy on energy from waste. Obviously, if the Minister needs to write to me on it, I would be very grateful. Also, the regulations clearly…28 Nov 2024HANSARDProducer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024My Lords, I congratulate the Minister on and thank her for bringing forward these regulations, which I wholeheartedly support; I also thank her for her clear exposition of what…28 Nov 2024HANSARDCOP 29The noble Earl, Lord Russell, raised the warm homes discount. I am the honorary president of National Energy Action. I see that the discount rate is still £150. Given the current…28 Nov 2024HANSARDStorm Bert: National PreparednessOn that point, will the Minister look carefully at the criteria that are set? Farmland that is more than a mile from a river has been flooded, and yet the owners are told that…28 Nov 2024HANSARDStorm Bert: National PreparednessI am grateful for that response. Our hearts go out to those who lost their lives in the recent floods. Should we be doing more maintenance and dredging between floods? Also, does…28 Nov 2024HANSARDStorm Bert: National PreparednessIn begging leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper, I refer to my interests as co-chairman of the All-Party Water Group and as honorary vice-president of…28 Nov 2024HANSARDStorm Bert: National PreparednessTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the state of national preparedness in advance of Storm Bert and the adequacy of the flood warnings prior to the…28 Nov 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]My Lords, I add my congratulations to the Minister on securing her first Bill in this new Parliament, and through her I pass on my thanks to the Bill team for their solicitations…26 Nov 2024HANSARDSolar Farms and Food ProductionIs the noble Baroness following closely the test case of the tenant farms in Old Malton, bearing in mind that 48% of all farms in North Yorkshire are tenanted? They are about to…26 Nov 2024HANSARDStorm BertMy Lords, the whole House is united around the concept of nature-based solutions. I am determined to invite the Minister to visit Slowing the Flow at Pickering in North Yorkshire,…26 Nov 2024HANSARDDefence Programmes DevelopmentsCan I press the noble Lord on the number of fast jets that are currently in service and are expected to be in service, say, over the next five years, and also on the number of…25 Nov 2024HANSARDWater BillsMy Lords, can the Minister assure me on the recommendation in the Frontier Economics report of 2021, commissioned by Ofwat, to stop developers passing on the cost of incremental…21 Nov 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to have the opportunity to return to these amendments and to thank the Minister and the Bill team, and indeed the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Stevenage,…20 Nov 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]20 Nov 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]Before the Minister sits down, she failed to respond on the case study on capacity and on the cumulative impact. I am afraid that in this Bill the Minister is making water…20 Nov 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]From the Minister’s last remarks, we are in fact saying the same thing. All I am asking the noble Baroness to put into this Bill is the requirement to report in six months’ time…20 Nov 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am delighted to have the opportunity to open on this very interesting group of amendments, and to speak to my Amendment 26. At the risk of having a love-in with the…20 Nov 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]It was on cumulative impact. I quoted what the noble Baroness had said about the cumulative impact on development, and I am trying to understand why we are delaying implementing…20 Nov 2024