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HANSARDLand Use FrameworkMy Lords, this does not seem to me to have anything to do with the timetable of farmers. Farmers have to plant and then, when the harvest comes, plant again. This means that they…28 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillI am sorry to trouble my noble friend again. I want to be on his side on this because I know he is really on my side. He knows that if you have to write an article, a deadline is…26 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I merely say this: I really wanted to support the Minister and I thank him for the conversations we had. I understand the argument that says soil cannot be exactly…26 Oct 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement: New ZealandI wonder whether my noble friend accepts that we are going to ask our farmers to take on very considerable responsibilities if we are to have any chance whatever of meeting net…25 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I hope that the Climate Change Committee will be one of the appropriate organisations to which this amendment applies; I declare an interest in that sense. There is…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I merely wish to say that I am very worried about this proposal. It seems not to deal with the real issue and to ask Defra to do what it cannot do. What we really…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I support the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Brown, because I know from my experience as chairman of the Climate Change Committee why it works. It works because…08 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillI hope that your Lordships will remember the words of the Pope in Laudato Si ’ , when he said that climate change was the symptom of what we had done to the world. That brings…06 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillI think my noble friend misunderstood my point. My point was that, given the opportunity to declare this simple thing in an Act, the Government, if they do not take it, cannot…06 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillI do not want this to start off so badly, but the fact is that many of us do not want to have various bits of this amendment and it is not our fault that my noble friend has been…06 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, the Climate Change Committee has made it very clear that the soil is a crucial part of our remediation policies to deal with climate change. I declare an interest…06 Sept 2021HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]Will my noble friend give way?05 Mar 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]I am happy to do that; I merely say to my noble friend that I have tabled the amendment and wish to discuss it because this is our opportunity to do so and we are repeating our…05 Mar 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]I understand that, and we have the protection that the request has to go before a judge but, in this document, the Government give accreditation to the United States, which has no…05 Mar 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]I support what my noble and learned friend Lord Mackay just said. There is a fundamental distinction between the Executive branch and the legal branch. My objection to the Bill is…05 Mar 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]Did my noble friend notice that the President of the United States has just taken credit for 3,000 judicial appointments and said that he has therefore ensured that those judicial…05 Mar 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend the Minister. I realise what she is saying and acknowledge the care with which she is saying it; I thank her very much for that. I tried to intervene…05 Mar 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]My Lords, I feel very strongly that although we may have disagreed on the subject of the United States, that should not stop us recognising the wider argument to which the noble…05 Mar 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]My Lords, I very much support this Bill. My Amendment 11B relates to the names of territories that were not in the original legislation but are in this Bill. My noble friend…05 Mar 2020HANSARDAlgorithms: Public Sector Decision-makingCould the noble Lord extend what he has just asked for by saying that the Minister should also cover those areas where algorithms defeat government policy and the laws of…12 Feb 2020