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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I rise to address Amendments 319 and 320, as introduced by my noble friend Lord Caithness—I thank him for that. These important amendments seek to ensure that future…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Caithness, and the noble Lord, Lord Cameron of Dillington, for their excellent amendments—excellent because I was a co-signatory. These…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, several of the amendments put forward by my noble friend Lord Caithness seek to ensure that those to whom the Secretary of State may delegate power are more precisely…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I rise to address the amendments in this group. There are some important amendments here, some that raise interesting concepts and some that are apparently sexy but may…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 337 and 342. I thank my noble friend Lady McIntosh of Pickering for her speeches tonight. She cares about these issues deeply and I commend…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment and make a plea for a simplified environmental audit for small modular nuclear reactors. I have in my hand here the speech I…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI wanted to speak briefly on the point that the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, made on regulatory alignment. I like regulatory alignment in principle, provided it meets the…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Coffey on this small but important amendment, Amendment 356. It may seem a technical thing, but it goes to the heart of how this Bill and…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 241 and 255, tabled by my noble friend Lord Gascoigne, whom I congratulate on an excellent and thoroughly knowledgeable speech. The…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillThe Minister is suggesting that the Government are going to change the law on this. Can she give us any indication of the timescale when we might see legislation—an amendment to…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I address Amendments 227C and 227E in the names of my noble friends Lady Hodgson of Abinger and Lord Banner respectively. I thank both my noble friends for bringing…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I congratulated the noble Baroness in Grand Committee last week and I am delighted to be able to repeat my congratulations today. It is lovely to see her in her place. I…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 233, I shall also speak to Amendment 283A in my name. I speak on behalf of my noble friend Lord Roborough, who has Amendments 281A to 282 in his…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her response. I need to stress the importance of involving farmers and landowners as partners working with the Government on this if we…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, this group of amendments concerning Part 3 has a particular focus on the role and powers of Natural England. Due to the constraints on time this evening, I will not…15 Sept 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I am not opposed to assisted dying in principle but I am opposed to this appallingly drafted Bill, which is a travesty of a Private Member’s Bill. It is a massive 51…12 Sept 2025HANSARDGlobal Plastic Pollution TreatyFirst, let us put on the record that under the last Government and this one, the UK negotiating team was regarded as one of the best in the world on this subject. Do the…11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I rise to move Amendment 146 and speak to Amendment 354 on behalf of my noble friend Lord Roborough. Amendment 146 would require spatial development strategies to list…11 Sept 2025