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HANSARDFeed-in Tariffs (Closure, etc.) Order 2018My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for raising this issue and bringing it to the Floor of the House. I commend her passion about the subject; it is completely…04 Mar 2019HANSARDInternational Waste Shipments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Do we have officials who check what happens to this stuff once we have exported it outside the EU and EFTA? Do we follow the supply chain and check what happens to it?27 Feb 2019HANSARDInternational Waste Shipments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I would also like to thank the Minister very much for participating in a meeting—I only managed to get to the very end of it, but the invitation was there. I also…27 Feb 2019HANSARDAquatic Animal Health and Alien Species in Aquaculture (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, it is always with some sadness that we deal with a Northern Ireland issue, a part of this country that voted remain quite decisively yet is completely unrepresented in…20 Feb 2019HANSARDEcodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, perhaps I will be more positive about these regulations and make the Minister feel better. I very much welcome the tone of the Explanatory Memorandum and its emphasis on…13 Feb 2019HANSARDStorage of Carbon Dioxide (Amendment and Power to Modify) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, when I read this, particularly the Explanatory Memorandum, I started to feel it was an exercise in irony. Despite all the urgency of the potential Brexit, here we have a…13 Feb 2019HANSARDEcodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I agree, in that my wife’s 40 year-old daughter has just left the house to move elsewhere, so that is a very appropriate comment and I look forward to the reduction in my…13 Feb 2019HANSARDFarming: Carbon EmissionsMy Lords, just as, in the energy sector, energy efficiency is the best way to reduce emissions, surely in agriculture one of the best ways to reduce emissions is by reducing food…12 Feb 2019HANSARDRailways: DawlishMy Lords, the economies of west Devon, Plymouth and Cornwall rely very much on this line. Last autumn a six-foot hole appeared under the track in the Dawlish area, so this is far…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaMy Lords, it is certainly my experience from business that it takes several years to change a culture in a company. Can the Minister explain to the House what is practically been…06 Feb 2019HANSARDClimate ChangeThat this House takes note of the threats presented by climate change.24 Jan 2019HANSARDClimate ChangeMy Lords, I remind the House that I am a trustee of the Green Purposes Company, which owns a green share in the Green Investment Bank. It is a long time since I have been involved…24 Jan 2019HANSARDRailways: ReliabilityTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve rail service reliability in 2019.23 Jan 2019HANSARDRailways: ReliabilityHmm. I accept absolutely that we have put billions into the rail network and rail services, and yet last year we had the worst service over the year for 13 years and the worst…23 Jan 2019HANSARDFloods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I strongly endorse the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Deben. We had real issues about water quality in the south-west, where I live, before we had the various…22 Jan 2019HANSARDInvasive Non-native Species (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, one of the privileges I have in this House is to chair your Lordships’ EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee. We were very grateful to the Minister for giving evidence…22 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: Withdrawal Agreement and Political DeclarationMy Lords, soon after the referendum, a number of my colleagues from across the House and the other place and I received a courteous and timely invitation to a lecture at the…14 Jan 2019