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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I just want to welcome that speech from the noble Baroness, Lady Bloomfield. It was excellent in its tone and entirely different from that of her colleague, the noble…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, like many Members in the Committee, when I read the list in my noble friend’s Amendment 77 I was absolutely incredulous that we are in the position where planning…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, if this was not the House of Lords, I think I would ask for a round of applause for the Minister. That was very concentrated information over about 15 minutes without…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillFollowing on from the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, can the Minister give us some idea of a timetable for this, given that there is total unanimity that we are not in a…01 Sept 2025HANSARDState of Climate and NatureMy Lords, I have not heard many Front-Bench Statements from the Opposition as sad, inaccurate and negative as the one that we have heard this evening. I find it incredible. I hear…21 Jul 2025HANSARDState of Climate and NatureI am going to ask the question. Can we find a way to define 30 by 30 land that includes ELMS, for instance, that makes that target attainable? At the moment, I believe it is…21 Jul 2025HANSARDRoad and Rail ProjectsMy Lords, like my noble friend, I was rather surprised by the tone of the Official Opposition, given the billions of pounds wasted on HS2 just to provide a shuttle—a high-speed…14 Jul 2025HANSARDForest Risk CommoditiesMy Lords, as a Defra Minister, will the noble Baroness welcome, and help the House consider, amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that better protect ancient…08 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am pleased to start with my interests because they are to do with energy, specifically battery storage—I will talk about long-term storage in a minute, but I will…25 Jun 2025HANSARDRivers and Estuaries: Derelict BoatsMy Lords, the abandonment of vessels is a growing problem on our estuaries and rivers; it is effectively a form of marine fly-tipping. Can the Minister note that there is no real…19 Jun 2025HANSARDRivers and Estuaries: Derelict BoatsTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the environmental and navigational risks posed by derelict boats abandoned on rivers and estuaries, and what…19 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Transport: Expansion and ElectrificationTo ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to enable the expansion and electrification of public transport networks to meet their net-zero emissions target.19 May 2025HANSARDPublic Transport: Expansion and ElectrificationAs the Minister will know, surface transport emissions are our largest proportion of emissions in the UK at the moment—about a quarter. The Government have done a fair bit on the…19 May 2025HANSARDPlanning Reforms: Energy and Housing CostsMy Lords, in future, a number of major planning applications will require environmental development plans, which will be written by Natural England. Yet there is a great…15 May 2025HANSARDEnergy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesWhat lessons has the Minister’s department learned from looking at our competitors, particularly in Europe, which seems to manage this aspect of its energy markets rather better?…06 May 2025HANSARDInfrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind and Solar Generation) Order 2025My Lords, I pay tribute to the persistence of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, on this subject and to how she has carried this end of Parliament on a number of occasions. I…06 May 2025HANSARDInfrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind and Solar Generation) Order 2025If I understand this, you are moving from 50 megawatts to 100 megawatts. So the 50 to 100 goes under the Town and Country Planning Act as local decisions. You are actually…06 May 2025HANSARDClimate Change: ProgressMy Lords, the report points out that one area in which we have actually moved backwards is the resilience of our water system, not least the atrocious situation that we still have…06 May 2025HANSARDEnergy Grid ResilienceMy Lords, the Government have a key meeting coming up with the European Union and, as part of the trade and co-operation agreement, there is, next year, a revision of the energy…06 May 2025HANSARDFarming: 25-year Road MapMy Lords, in order to meet the combined objectives of food security and nature recovery, we need a much more nature-friendly form of farming. However, to make that transition, it…28 Apr 2025