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HANSARDEthiopia and SomaliaMy Lords, what conversations are the Government having with the Somaliland Administration about the potential agreement for a port with Ethiopia? There is a regional organisation…07 Oct 2024HANSARDWatchdogs (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)My Lords, I have not had the opportunity to welcome the Minister to her new position. Her work on the environmental side of things when she was on the Opposition Benches was…09 Sept 2024HANSARDHousing: Modern Methods of ConstructionMy Lords, MMC can make a big difference in energy efficiency and embodied carbon in buildings. I will give a quick bit of history for 15 seconds. The previous Labour Government,…05 Sept 2024HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of Aldustria Ltd, a very modest battery storage company which is plugging into the grid, as that is around a grid connection as well. As…02 Sept 2024HANSARDLease Extension Policies for Residential PropertiesMy Lords, the Crown Estate owns the seabed around England and Wales. Is it the Government’s opinion that it should use that influence of ownership to stop particularly destructive…30 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, first, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, for giving the list of European issues. To me, it was actually a list of why we should still be there and why we should…25 Jul 2024HANSARDManagement of Hedgerows (England) Regulations 2024Forgive me—I do not want to take up the time of the Grand Committee or the Minister; we have taken up a fair bit of time. However, I would value a clarification on Cornish hedges,…20 May 2024HANSARDManagement of Hedgerows (England) Regulations 2024My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partnership, and I will come back to a particular regional issue in a minute. I agree with…20 May 2024HANSARDAgriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2024My Lords, perhaps I can ask simple question. I very much welcome the fact of the transition from basic payments to SFI. Let us be quite clear: there has been a heck of a lot of…20 May 2024HANSARDAgriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2024I thank the Minister for asking. What I am really trying to say is that we have here a unique instrument that can use various elements of the SFI to get the sort of environmental…20 May 2024HANSARDPrepayment MetersMy Lords, one of Ofgem’s new conditions for energy suppliers, now that they can start forcing prepayment meters again, is that they carry out internal audits to make sure they are…14 May 2024HANSARDHome InsulationMy Lords, in 2015, George Osborne, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, cancelled the zero carbon homes regulations that were supposed to come into force the next year. Since then,…14 May 2024HANSARDPassport e-Gates Network OutageMy Lords, I shall be a little bit more positive and say, first, that since their introduction these gates have been tremendous in terms of increasing mobility and getting people…13 May 2024HANSARDMedia BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Wigley. In fact, I worked with Mebyon Kernow on this amendment, and it…08 May 2024HANSARDMedia Bill08 May 2024HANSARDMedia BillMy Lords, Amendments 4 and 5 are in my name and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, for adding his name to them. We are of course moving on to the area of…08 May 2024HANSARDSewage Pollution: Lakes and RiversMy Lords, the Minister mentioned the River Wye. The great news is that a citizen science army of people has been monitoring the whole of that catchment area. Do the Government…30 Apr 2024HANSARDChemicals StrategyMy Lords, I always get the impression that chemicals regulation is at the bottom of Defra’s in-tray. Its performance since Brexit has been atrocious. I also get the impression…30 Apr 2024HANSARDRed Sea Telecommunication CablesFor UK data security, the rather unglamorous solution is the proliferation of these cables, which to a degree is already naturally happening commercially. Where there is real…14 Mar 2024HANSARDPollution in Rivers and Regulation of Private Water CompaniesMy Lords, I declare my interest as chair of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partnership. I, too, congratulate my noble friend on getting the timing of this debate…29 Feb 2024