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HANSARDLeaving the EU: Farming PolicyThere is a crisis of species decline in this country. While we can all see the virtues of operations like rewilding and species introduction, it is in the farmed environment where…28 Mar 2019HANSARD Foreign Affairs CommitteeThe hon. Lady makes a very important point. I do think that the membership of a Select Committee or of a delegation—although, out there in the real world, it is not what they are…19 Mar 2019HANSARD Foreign Affairs CommitteeI will not, because I have made a promise that I am going to shut up. I just want to say that I have huge respect for the hon. Member for Dudley North (Ian Austin) as well. He and…19 Mar 2019HANSARD Foreign Affairs CommitteeI entirely agree with my hon. Friend. I will conclude by saying that the hon. Member for Ilford South does the work, chairs committees and understands how these things work, and I…19 Mar 2019HANSARD Foreign Affairs CommitteeI will give way very quickly, and then I will conclude.19 Mar 2019HANSARD Foreign Affairs CommitteeI am moved by the speech of the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain McDonagh). Those were extraordinarily courageous words to say in this extraordinary Parliament, where…19 Mar 2019HANSARD Foreign Affairs CommitteeIt seems longer.19 Mar 2019HANSARDChildren Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill [Lords]Does my hon. Friend’s work on the all-party group and with campaigners reveal a reluctance on this among groups of people to whom children are presented, for whatever reason? We…11 Mar 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI think that the best way to protect our environment is to have more grass in rotation. If people make sweeping statements that close down certain industries— [Interruption.] I…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI am going to get my children on to that. I am a serial litter picker, to their dismay, and I think that is a fantastic initiative.28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressIf my hon. Friend will allow me, I will just make a bit more progress. When I was discussing this issue with these young people, I was conscious that none of them knew that the UK…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI applaud the hon. Members for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran) and for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) for securing this debate. It is a great pleasure to be able to…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI can dream. It is absolutely imperative that we tackle this issue of carbon emissions. The Pentagon, surprisingly for some, has looked carefully at the impact of climate change…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI do—and I speak as one who knows a bit about this subject. I have been trying to embrace techniques in what I have been doing through the less than perfect mechanism of the…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressMy right hon. Friend is right. Looking out of an aeroplane window at that delta, one can think about the implications of even a 1 metre rise. It would have a devastating,…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressWe could go on a global tour of the planet’s vital environmental assets that are at serious risk of being irretrievably damaged unless we tackle this issue. The hon. Lady is…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise that point. These debates are invigorating, desperate though the issue is, because there is an enormous amount of expertise across the…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s Progressrose—28 Feb 2019HANSARDFood WasteAnaerobic digestion of food waste used to be prohibitively expensive for local authorities, but now there has been a massive drop in the cost so savings are available for local…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Legislation against Female Genital MutilationMy hon. Friend the Member for Richmond Park (Zac Goldsmith) is delayed elsewhere, on the Committee corridor, but I know that if he were here, he would start by paying tribute to…11 Feb 2019