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HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q This is part and parcel of the same question—12 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I want to pursue the question about whether we would be better off in or out of REACH. Do you think there are concerns that the new regime would not provide the same level of…12 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q There is a balance between getting up to speed dealing with current regulations and keeping pace with innovation, which presumably will have an impact on some of the industries…12 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourth sitting)I was trying to clarify what I was asking about.12 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Third sitting)Q Can I just ask a quick question about chemicals in the water supply and whether the Bill does enough to increase the monitoring of pesticides and other pollutants in the water?…12 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I must have revised the questions I was about to ask about 20 times, Richard, because you just kept saying, “And another thing,” so I was like, “That one is gone.” There are a…12 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourth sitting)The UK, in “The Future Relationship with the EU” document, talks about “the separate regulatory requirements of the two markets”. What impact would that have on the chemicals…12 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q Is that the mandatory food waste audits? When you refer to reporting, are some companies such as Tesco already doing audits of key items at least? Do you mean that at least the…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)We are having a sitting on Thursday, when we may be looking at things such as the waste hierarchy, so I can probably save my question for that. It was mentioned earlier today…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q Could I ask about the global footprint issues? As you may have noticed, I have tabled a couple of amendments: 76 and 77. There are two aspects to this. One is our…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q On the skills side, it is one thing for a developer to bring in an ecologist or someone to advise on these measures at the smaller scale of things. To what extent is any of this…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)I think Brighton and Hove has just done it, and Exeter. I am working on Bristol. Rico Wojtulewicz: They have. I am from Brighton.10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q To go back to the 10% target, I thought you were being quite enthusiastic about quite a lot that could be done from the house builders’ side of things. As parliamentary species…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q What often happens, though, is that some companies do it. There has been an issue in the past over things being reported in aggregate rather than identified specifically, and…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q So basically it is making mandatory what some companies do on a voluntary basis. David Bellamy: Yes. That is my understanding of the Government’s proposals. Andrew Poole: Making…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q Can I ask the FDF about food waste? It is mentioned peripherally in the Bill in terms of the separate collections and so on, but there is nothing more. There is a food strategy…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q Are you saying that it is not a good thing? Andrew Poole: I am saying it would have to be looked at quite carefully, so that the requirements were proportionate and the supply…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q But you would also support interim targets further downstream? Edward Lockhart-Mummery: We definitely support strengthening the targets. This is something we have discussed a…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q Mr Lockhart-Mummery, you also spoke about objectives. I am interested to know how those objectives would fit with targets and interim targets, and how that would pull the whole…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q Leading on from what you were saying about the interim targets, how do you strike the balance? At the moment, you have very long-term targets of at least 15 years. I accept what…10 Mar 2020