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HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am slightly concerned that the Minister is not responding to exactly what we said in the amendment. We need to make a decision on what this is about. Is it about single-use…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourteenth sitting)rose—12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourteenth sitting)My hon. Friend raises the issue of mattresses, which absolutely are the most difficult thing to properly dispose of. I was going to restrict my point to white goods, but it is…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourteenth sitting)What occurred then, and what is occurring now—or what I hope will occur now—is that the motivation to recycle, return and sort out particular items comes from a value being given…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I welcome the opportunity to have a brief debate on the schedule, which is all about deposit schemes. As the Minister has set out admirably, the deposit schemes can target things…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for giving way. I am not particularly criticising or wishing to take away from any of the excellent things the Minister has been saying about the purpose of…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourteenth sitting)rose—12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Fourteenth sitting)My hon. Friend is right. We have made considerable progress on food waste, and we will come to discuss some wider aspects of food waste later in the proceedings. Nevertheless, she…12 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Yes.10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Absolutely, and that is what we want to do as well. That is why we want to ensure that it works as well as it should. It appears, I hope, that this formulation, strange as it…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for that. That is very helpful. If it is the case that a Department, in Northern Ireland practice, effectively takes its cue for these things from the…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I do not think the Minister has clarified what paragraph 3(6) of schedule 3 means. I offered a possible interpretation of what that clause meant—it appears to say that an entire…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)There are two things on which I want to reflect. We must remember that the schedule concerns the Northern Ireland function of the Office for Environmental Protection, and should…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I do not have any great objections to this clause, but we should reflect on the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge. It is a bit shocking that this proposal was…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)Yes, indeed. My hon. Friend reminds me of the constituencies of our hon. Friends who tabled new clause 5, so I may now refer to them. The amendments that the Government have…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move amendment 127, in clause 43, page 26, line 6, leave out “mainly”. This amendment ensures that any legislative provision that concerns environmental protection is…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)My hon. Friend is a mine of carefully culled information from previous sittings of the Committee, including the evidence sessions, which underline the points we are making this…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank the Minister for her response—she had a good go at it. We will not withdraw our concern, but as the Minister has given some reassurance about how the term “mainly” might…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I would like to. This amendment, as hon. Members will see, Mr Gray, was tabled by two previous members of the Committee. With the effluxion of time, however, they are no longer…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)Elevated indeed, to higher and more august posts in the Opposition ranks. They are therefore no longer on the Committee, but that does not mean that what they put forward should…10 Nov 2020