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HANSARDHovercraft (Application of Enactments) (Amendment) Order 2025That the Grand Committee do consider the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) (Amendment) Order 2025.10 Sept 2025HANSARDHovercraft (Application of Enactments) (Amendment) Order 2025My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their consideration of this draft order. I am grateful for the scrutiny and interest shown in ensuring our maritime legislation remains…10 Sept 2025HANSARDHovercraft (Application of Enactments) (Amendment) Order 2025The noble Lord raises a valued point, and I will write to him fully. The intention of this order is only to cope with their maritime use and the marginal use of the slipway at…10 Sept 2025HANSARDSpace Industry (Indemnities) BillMy Lords, I am delighted that this short but crucial Bill has come before your Lordships’ House, and I join all noble Lords in thanking the noble Baroness for bringing it forward.…05 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, the first three amendments in this group seek to ensure that the fees charged by the prescribed bodies to highways authorities under the Highways Act 1980 are not…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI thank the noble Lord for his intervention and I am very sympathetic to his point. He is quite right. He and I both know that, on many occasions, reinstatement works are done…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, before I turn to Amendment 53G, I will reflect on the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, at the end of the previous group. I will, of course, write to him about…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillWe will differ slightly on the interpretation. I think that I agree with him. Furthermore, imposing a 12-week minimum consultation period would introduce rigidity that would have…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillThis amendment seeks to provide safeguards in legislation to implement powers of temporary possession under the Highways Act 1980. Of course, that Act already contains powers…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI thank the noble Lord for his intervention. Since he asked the question, I will write to him about how the condition of the returning land is to be dealt with. In the meantime, I…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI thank the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, for that point. He makes a very valid point, and we will go away and consider it. I thank him very much for raising it. I kindly ask the…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, for setting out so succinctly the choices for the routes by which infrastructure projects might be pursued. The…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillWe have to get ourselves into a position where it is possible to get schemes to move forward based on a consideration of the objections and whether they can be dealt with by means…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI thank the noble Lord for his interjection. I will write to him after this Committee and set out some more detail.24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillThe noble Lord, Lord Moylan, makes an interesting point. I will not replicate the intention of Clause 38 because that is already pretty clear to the House. However, I am not sure…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, the Bill seeks to deliver a faster and more certain consenting process for infrastructure. It is quite clear that there are a whole range of measures within the Bill…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I shall seek to be brief on this matter. Clause 42 allows for a single process similar to that in the Planning Act 2008, which already provides for deemed marine…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, as the noble Lord said, the amendments he has tabled seek to limit the making of any consequential amendments to the Transport and Works Act 1992. Clause 45 provides a…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, government Amendments 56 and 359 relate to Clause 46. Harbour revision and empowerment orders under the Harbours Act 1964 extend or modify ports’ statutory powers. The…24 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, follow that. The noble Lord says he is out of temper; I am out of energy, so I am going to be as brief as I can be. The general tone of the discussion was very positive,…24 Jul 2025