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HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]With respect to my noble friend, no. As long as the Minister has set out that, “We have received this report and here is our response; we hear what you say but there are wider…06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]My learned noble friend will know that there will be attempts to judicially review Governments at every stage of a process of policy, particularly in areas that are emotive and…06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]I start by wishing my noble friend Lord Mancroft a speedy recovery, and I am sorry he is not here. I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Marland for moving his amendment and the…06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]I am grateful to your Lordships for your forbearance, and for your views and insights on this important piece of legislation. I will also speak to the consequential Amendment 43.…06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble Baroness for those remarks. I think it might be helpful to the House if I say how this came about, as it answers the points about how we got to the…06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]I hope I can reassure my noble friend by saying that if the Secretary of State were to use his or her powers to recommend another species or group of species to be included, that…06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, and I congratulate her on hers, too—and I thank her for her help in making this Bill better, although we have more to do. I join in the…06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]I am grateful to my noble friend. I will not detain the House by repeating the paragraphs I have put on record in relation to the prioritising policies that the committee will…06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]My noble friend is absolutely right. I have listened to the noble Lord, Lord Trees, a lot in my few months in this role. I respect his views and his counsel and, wherever…06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]It does not go way beyond Article 13, but it does create a committee that did not exist. There were other measures in the European Union which sought to give substance to the…06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Trees, the noble Baroness, Lady Mallalieu, and my noble friends Lord Howard and Lord Caithness, for their amendments on the subject…06 Dec 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords for their valuable scrutiny of the Bill, and the envisaged structure and operation of the animal sentience committee. I will address the points raised in turn.…06 Dec 2021HANSARDWater: SewageIf the noble Lord will allow me, I will write to him with a specific technical response, because we are talking about public health and I want to make absolutely certain that he…01 Dec 2021HANSARDWater: SewageThe noble Lord raises a really important point. The Government are looking at this right across the piece as a “one health” approach across human and animal health, food and the…01 Dec 2021HANSARDWater: SewageThe actions of water companies in relation to storm outflows has been brought into sharp relief by the debates around what is now the Environment Act, and other measures being…01 Dec 2021HANSARDWater: SewageI am full of admiration for how the noble Lord manages to find a Brexit angle on even quite a domestic matter. There is currently no disruption to the supply of water, its…01 Dec 2021HANSARDWater: SewageI am not aware of those two specific cases but we will be reporting to this House on our response to the timetable on all the measures—the eight duties listed in the Environment…01 Dec 2021HANSARDWater: SewageMy Lords, the Government have been clear that the current number of sewage discharges is unacceptable. Water companies are already making improvements, investing £3.1 billion in…01 Dec 2021