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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)Dr Huq, I do not know whether I get the opportunity to sum up, so I have jumped in with an intervention. Could the Minister clarify the circumstances in which an individual…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Dr Huq—although I was not sure how much of a pleasure until you introduced the sitting in the way that you did. Amendments 21 and…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 120, in clause 47, page 70, leave out line 40 and insert— “(5) A strategic planning authority must prepare and consult on a statement of community…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)Where’s my espresso?14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)The Minister is being characteristically generous with his time; I wish we had more. There are genuine concerns about the timetabling of the measures. I invite him to confirm that…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I rise to speak in support of amendment 13, which would require that the conservation measures undertaken within environmental delivery plans should significantly protect…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I am sure we can hardly contain our excitement about moving on to another clause. Amendment 12 would require that conservation measures undertaken within environmental development…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 12, in clause 48, page 83, line 2, after “to” insert “significantly”. This amendment would require that conservation measures undertaken within…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 47 ordered to stand part of the Bill. Schedule 3 Section 47: minor and consequential…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)The Committee will be delighted to hear that I will be extremely brief on this topic. Simply put, there is no provision for how often a spatial development strategy should be…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)We wish to press the amendment to a vote, because we believe in the right to be heard and, in general, we are highly concerned about the potential erosion of the democratic…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for correcting me on that point. He is absolutely right that there is a provision stating that consultation responses must be taken into account, but…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 21, in clause 47, page 62, leave out from line 32 to line 2 on page 63. This relates to amendment 22. This amendment would remove the requirement for…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 124, in clause 47, page 74, line 10, leave out “from time to time” and insert “annually”.14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I rise to speak to amendments 90 and 91—hon. Members will be pleased to hear that I will be brief. We have significant concerns about community involvement in consultation and…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I very much sympathise with the amendment. Indeed, I have air quality management areas in my constituency of Taunton and Wellington, including two that breach the lawful limits of…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I rise to support amendment 1 and speak to amendment 30, which my hon. Friend the Member for Didcot and Wantage will talk about, and amendment 28, in my name, which relates to…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Amendment proposed : 123, in clause 47, page 66, line 7, at end insert— “(4A) For the purposes of…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful for the Minister’s response, but I remain concerned. The Bill states: “A spatial development strategy may specify or describe infrastructure the provision of which…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I appreciate that the Minister is hoping that spatial development strategies will make provision for that, but does he accept that the wording in the Bill is that they will…14 May 2025