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HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering said, this is an interesting group of amendments and we on these Benches welcome them. I do not wish to replicate what…20 Nov 2024HANSARDBiodiversity Net GainTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the implementation of the biodiversity net gain provisions.06 Nov 2024HANSARDBiodiversity Net GainI thank the Minister for her reply. She may know that analysis has shown that only 7% of planning applications are identifying a need for biodiversity net gain, which is massively…06 Nov 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]That is not true.04 Nov 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for her responses to the numerous amendments in this group on pollution incident reduction plans, which I think everyone in this Committee believes is one of…30 Oct 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to introduce Amendment 78 and to return to the issue we covered on the first day in Committee around the duty of the water regulator, Ofwat, and the fact that at…30 Oct 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]30 Oct 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]In moving Amendment 30 I will introduce it and seven other amendments in this group. I say immediately that a number of them are consequential, and I am very mindful of the…30 Oct 2024HANSARDIndependent Water CommissionMy Lords, I will pick up the point that the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington, made about regulators. While we welcome very much the independent water commission and what it will…29 Oct 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]My Lords, I will be brief because the noble Baroness, Lady Willis, has set out clearly the case for a duty for Ofwat to deliver on the Government’s biodiversity and climate change…28 Oct 2024HANSARDEV Strategy: (ECC Committee Report)That this House takes note of the Report from the Environment and Climate Change Committee EV strategy: rapid recharge needed (1st Report, Session 2023-24, HL Paper 51).16 Oct 2024HANSARDEV Strategy: (ECC Committee Report)My Lords, it gives me great pleasure as the past chair of the Lords Select Committee on Environment and Climate Change to open this debate on electric vehicles. While recognising…16 Oct 2024HANSARDEV Strategy: (ECC Committee Report)My Lords, I will briefly thank the Minister for putting on record how important this policy area is to the Government, for confirming that they accept their responsibility to grow…16 Oct 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]I am so sorry: the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington—it is not easy to muddle the two, so apologies for that. He rightly made the point that this situation was actually made…09 Oct 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]I heard on Radio 4’s “Today” programme that the response from the regulator was that what was needed was a change in culture. Now, putting aside that it seemed strange that the…09 Oct 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]My Lords, yesterday we learned that water companies failed, for the fourth year in a row, to meet critical pollution reduction targets and that last year over 3 million…09 Oct 2024HANSARDEnvironment and Climate Change Committee Report: An Extraordinary Challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our Land and Sea by 2030All that remains at the end of this long, thoughtful and valuable debate is, on behalf of us all, to wish the new Minister and her colleagues well in delivering on this important…11 Sept 2024HANSARDEnvironment and Climate Change Committee Report: An Extraordinary Challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our Land and Sea by 2030That the Grand Committee takes note of the Report from the Environment and Climate Change Committee An extraordinary challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our land and sea by 2030…11 Sept 2024HANSARDEnvironment and Climate Change Committee Report: An Extraordinary Challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our Land and Sea by 2030My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to open this debate as the past chairman of the Select Committee on Environment and Climate Change, as we debate the issue of how we in the UK…11 Sept 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, at this late stage in the debate, I will merely add my voice to the cacophony of congratulations to the new Front Bench and Government at this important time in our…18 Jul 2024