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HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The Minister talks about checks and balances, but I am sure she will know that, as far as the checks and balances relating to storm overflows are concerned, more than 60…17 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 132, in clause 80, page 78, line 1, leave out “2028” and insert “2021”17 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for what she has said. She has gone some way towards assuring us on this matter, and I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave,…17 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 199, in clause 76, page 70, line 4, leave out “may” and insert “must”. When a minister chooses to make a drainage and sewerage management plan, this…17 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 131, in clause 76, page 70, line 6, at end insert “including persons or bodies representing the interests of those likely to be affected”. This amendment…17 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Sixteenth sitting)In the light of that answer, which I had anticipated, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Amendments made: 51, in clause 76, page 70,…17 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I will not detain the Committee at great length on this particular clause stand part debate, because I just want to raise an issue that somewhat puzzles me about the wording of…17 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I think the Minister should accept that I am one of the least puzzled Members of the House, but I do admit to puzzlement sometimes. On this occasion, my puzzlement has not been…17 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Sixteenth sitting)These amendments all make the same point about there being no compensation for certain licence modifications in water abstraction. Should licences be modified as a result of…17 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Will the Minister give way?12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I have a few things to say about the schedule, including some questions for the Minister about how it might best be implemented. As I am sure all hon. Members know, how waste…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourteenth sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The concept of a larger system through which all of this works is key to this whole discussion. Indeed, what we have been talking about, and…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I wanted to draw the Committee’s attention to schedule 11, which concerns the local authority management framework. As hon. Members will see, within that framework on air quality,…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I will indeed. I just wanted to correct what the Minister seemed to suggest I said about the OECD. I was not saying “Hooray for exports to the OECD!” Rather, I think we should see…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I echo my hon. Friend’s claim that the amendment is very important for how the country is seen to deal with its waste, and particularly for how we are seen by our own population.…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fifteenth sitting)If I am being misled, I look to the Minister to provide clarification, which I hope she is beginning to do—indeed, that is what I want, to inform my understanding of how the…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fifteenth sitting)They do.12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fifteenth sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right that clarity is important. In clause 54(4), immediately after the conditions that are set out on recyclable and food waste, there is a separate…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fifteenth sitting)We do not seek to oppose the clause, but I want to ask about food waste, which we may come to when we debate later schedules. Food waste is clearly an important issue. Indeed, it…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fifteenth sitting)As hon. Members will recall, before we adjourned we discussed an amendment that sought to place a slightly different emphasis on elements of the schedule; we wanted to emphasise…12 Nov 2020