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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I would like to speak on behalf of the Cinnabar moth, a very handsome creature which is nourished on ragwort. Ragwort is an ordinary part of the downland scene. It is an…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I have the last amendment in this group. I very much support my noble friend Lady Coffey on her ponds amendment. We are short of ponds in the landscape, generally, and…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy noble friend should know better than to say “Before the Minister sits down”—really. When this project gets going and we start to see how Natural England is balancing its own…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillNot for the first time I find myself entirely in agreement with the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. I therefore do not need to take a lot of time on my amendment in this…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, where it is troubling serious agriculture, yes, we should enforce.17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillThe prospect of spending weekends with the noble Lord, Lord Cromwell, seems well worth some ragwort pulling. I also sound a note of caution in respect of the amendments tabled by…17 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I very much support the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, and the amendments she has put forward. I hope that the Government are thoroughly behind the National Education…16 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, my hope is that this amendment has been rendered unnecessary by the Government’s plan for school profiles, so I will speak to the principles of it rather than the…16 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill16 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I very much support Amendment 502W from the noble Lord, Lord Carlile. We need a much better standard and a much better quantity of data in this area. We need to start…16 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillNo, I would expect a website or maybe a PDF, but something containing the information that is supposed to make it possible for parents to go to one place and see the admissions…16 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I have not done a complete survey, but I am not aware of a single local authority that does produce a composite prospectus in the old style any more. I absolutely take—16 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI look forward to that, but I very much regret that the settlement that we reached should be torn up in this way. When it comes to my own Amendment 449, it is all very well for…16 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, my Amendment 474 would encourage this openness towards parents to be extended to all curriculum materials.16 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillBut the Government are changing that, my Lords. I was part of the debates where we arrived at the 50% figure. I remember the Catholic schools playing a very strong part in that…16 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, there is a lot of opportunity in the context of this Bill to mandate that new towns be preferred as sites for data centres, because the excess heat can be used in the…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, in moving my Amendment 207 I will speak also to my Amendments 208 and 209. I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Wolf of Dulwich, for adding her name to these; I am…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I understand what the Minister said about the quality criteria I put in the amendment. I included them for discussion. However, I do not understand her willingness to…15 Sept 2025