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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillIf “environmental impact” in Clause 55 embraces all the ways in which a development might impact negatively on an environmental feature, why does the clause go on to say: “But an…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillIf I may, I anticipate my noble friend Lord Roborough speaking to his Amendments 166 and 167. Before he does so, however, without reiterating the exchange that the Minister and I…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMay I just say—not least to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones—that, as it happens, I support the view that it would be wrong to take out Part 3 at this stage? I say that for…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI have left Clause 55(1)(a) where the Government left it, which means that we are concerned only with the environmental feature which is the subject of the EDP. Her entire…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI apologise; I shall not intervene again. Schedule 4 says that the environmental impacts can be disregarded, but the Minister is telling us that the environmental impacts…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI am grateful to the noble Lords for their contributions to this debate; it is a really important one. What the Minister said certainly added something new in terms of the…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, this group consists of amendments relating to the circumstances under which the levy for the nature restoration fund should be made mandatory. The Minister may recall…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 69 in my name. We discussed the viability assessment processes in Committee, and Amendment 69 is essentially about encouraging early…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am grateful for all the contributions to this short debate. The effect of Amendment 108 on neighbourhood development plans would be to commence them when this Act is…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI hope we can be equally quick about Amendment 99. It is grouped with Amendment 127, on which I am looking forward to hearing, I hope, complementary thoughts about the importance…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I have signed my noble friend’s Amendments 105 and 113, and he very kindly referred to the previous debates, before he joined your Lordships’ House, on the then…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am most grateful to noble Lords—particularly the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock—for their support, and to the Minister for her response. I completely understand that the…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI am grateful to the Minister, not least for her time in discussing these matters. I do not think we have moved forward, but we continue to be in a position where she has very…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I apologise: I should when I first rose, as it was the first time I spoke on Report today, have drawn attention to my registered interests relating to the chairmanship…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, Amendment 106 relates to the role of the chief planner. Noble Lords may recall the debate in Committee when we looked at whether there should be a chief planner,…27 Oct 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillIs the Minister aware of the retailers—some 3,000 of them—which have written to Ministers to make the point, which emerged in a number of noble Lords’ speeches, about how…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, Amendment 97A relates to the situation where local government reorganisation leads to changes in the authorities which constitute the strategic planning authority that…27 Oct 2025