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HANSARDPackaging Waste (Data Reporting) (England) Regulations 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (England) Regulations 2023.21 Feb 2023HANSARDPackaging Waste (Data Reporting) (England) Regulations 2023My Lords, the regulations were laid before the House on 9 January. The date of laying is the same as in the other place. These regulations are essential secondary legislation…21 Feb 2023HANSARDAlcoholic Beverages (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Alcoholic Beverages (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023.21 Feb 2023HANSARDPackaging Waste (Data Reporting) (England) Regulations 2023I am grateful to both noble Lords for their support for this proposal. I will seek to answer their questions. The noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, asked whether it is going ahead…21 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023I refute the idea from the noble Duke that this is not ambitious. I urge him to read all 250 to 300 pages of the document and see the lengths that it goes to to put our natural…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023My Lords, I declare my farming interests as set out in the register. I am very grateful to the two noble Baronesses for their questions on the environmental improvement plan. As…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023I can assure my noble friend that it does remain a priority for this Government. If he looks at the very first few lines of the Agriculture Act, he will see that it is beholden on…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023I was the Minister responsible for delivering on the coalition Government’s clear commitment to reduce bills for water charge payers in the south-west because of the extra effort…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023As the noble Baroness will know, the Government—whether Ministers or civil servants—do not save soil; farmers do. We want, first, to incentivise them to do the right thing where…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023The noble Baroness is right: the Ministry of Defence was carved out of the provisions in large areas. However, I urge her to look at what it is doing by way of tree-planting and…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023The noble Baroness is absolutely right. It takes just a few millimetres of rain to fall on London for sewage outflows to start pushing sewage straight into the Thames. That is…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023The noble Lord is entirely right. We are doing all we can to increase the capacity of our native tree nursery sector to produce what is needed for the very ambitious plans we have…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023The noble Lord raises an important point. First, it surprised a number of people that one of our targets on water quality was based around the release of toxic substances from old…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023I am not sure of the exact date, but the noble Earl, who is very close to these issues, will be the first to know. He and others have taken forward so much work by producing this…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023We have certainly not gone back on the commitment to ban neonicotinoids. As has happened in the last two years, we have given an indication that we might be in favour of the…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023I share my noble friend’s delight that we are taking forward this part of the Flood and Water Management Act. I know that it has been a long time coming. There are a lot of…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023The noble Viscount is absolutely right to raise this. That storm flood, which was a perfect storm in every sense of the word, combined a tidal surge with very high water levels.…06 Feb 2023HANSARDAgricultural Transition PlanI absolutely accept the noble Lord’s point. I want to make sure that my language is correct, because there are a lot of conspiracy theories at the extremes; then there are the…01 Feb 2023HANSARDAgricultural Transition PlanI thank my noble friend. His knowledge and interest in this subject are of course really helpful. We want to make sure that precisely those farmers are able to access these…01 Feb 2023HANSARDAgricultural Transition PlanOn the farmer situation, about 2,200 have entered the sustainable farming incentive to date. That is not particularly surprising, because the amount of money that was available…01 Feb 2023