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HANSARDFlooding InterventionsMy Lords, the Environmental Audit Committee’s fourth report on flood resilience in England in October 2025 highlighted that Defra’s flood budget is increasingly a thin blue line…06 Jan 2026HANSARDProducer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025My Lords, I too thank the Minister for introducing these amended regulations. I begin by acknowledging that they make a number of sensible technical adjustments to the extended…15 Dec 2025HANSARDProducer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025I understand that this may be beyond the Minister’s notes today, but I asked whether there will be an opportunity to use technology more effectively in compliance and in enforcing…15 Dec 2025HANSARDSmall FarmsMy Lords, last week BBC “Countryfile” broadcast an interview with an 82 year-old farmer who said he had considered suicide in direct response to the Government’s family farm tax.…01 Dec 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, we on these Benches and many other noble Lords have challenged the necessity for Part 3 throughout the Bill’s passage through your Lordships’ House. The Government have…24 Nov 2025HANSARDBiodiversity and the CountrysideMy Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend Lord Grayling for securing this important debate on the impact of this Government’s policies on biodiversity and the countryside.…13 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I rise extremely briefly to thank the Minister for her engagement and her reassurance on the exercise of CPO powers and the engagement of the private sector.10 Nov 2025HANSARDRiver PollutionMy Lords, the Water (Special Measures) Act, the Cunliffe review and now the Planning and Infrastructure Bill all offer the potential for the mobilisation of greater private…10 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill03 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, Amendments 242 and 243 are in my name. The purpose of these amendments is simply to eliminate the ability of the Government to ignore hope value when assessing value on…03 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate, to my noble friend on the Front Bench for her support and to the Minister for her well…03 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I rise briefly to add our support for Amendment 249, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Cameron of Dillington. I would draw a thread through all these debates that we have…03 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I will also speak to my Amendment 231A. I address Amendment 208 individually, rather than as a group as in Committee, because the facts have changed following the CG Fry…03 Nov 2025HANSARDHeather and Grass etc. Burning (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Caithness for moving this debate, which touches on many important issues. Following on from my noble friend Lord Blencathra, I…30 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am very grateful for the Minister’s response to this small group of amendments. Starting just briefly with the invasive non-native species, I think it was very…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I rise to move my Amendment 141, but will speak only to my Amendment 170A, which is the important amendment of mine in this group. It seeks to ensure that developers are…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I cannot say that I heard satisfactory answers to many of the amendments in this group. I certainly do not feel satisfied that there will be a way for a developer to…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I shall speak also to the other amendments in this group. In Committee, the Minister suggested that farmers, fishermen and landowners likely to be impacted by an EDP…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI am grateful to the Minister for sticking to his brief, but I think there was not enough there to satisfy certainly these Benches—enabling private sector engagement, instead of…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I shall speak also to my other amendments in this group. The purpose of the amendments is to impose further discipline on Natural England in the exercise of its CPO…29 Oct 2025