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HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Member is right to the extent that land does extend under the water, otherwise the seas would drain fairly rapidly and we would be in a bad state. According to the hon.…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I take the hon. Gentleman’s point but it is not a question of the OEP having to take on the mantle of English Heritage, or a national monuments commission, and assiduously…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for making that point. That underlines what we know is right in our hearts. If we reduced this to a few lines on a piece of paper, we might have to start…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for that point, which I had not fully covered. The National Trust is, indeed, responsible for sweeping the leaves and various other things from these…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move amendment 126, in clause 41, page 25, line 35, after “structures” insert “but including sites of archaeological, architectural, artistic, cultural or historic…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank the Minister for her explanation. I am not entirely happy with the way the clause is drafted, but I accept what she has said and will not oppose it. Question put and…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)As my hon. Friend suggests, it is a less transparent process than before. It appears that, in this clause, we are retreating from the principle of transparency. Of course, I may…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Gentleman will have accepted already that, throughout the passage of the Bill, we have tried to assert robustly—this is accepted on all sides—that the OEP should be truly…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)Hon. Members will see that under clause 38, when the Office for Environmental Protection “gives an information notice or a decision notice, applies for an environmental review,…10 Nov 2020HANSARDDismiss and Re-engage TacticsSurely the Minister must understand that fire and rehire tactics are not part of a negotiating tactic: they are a gun to the head of every worker in the organisation. It has…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Indeed. That is absolutely right: “passport” is another good way to describe it, although only a limited number of things can be jammed in a passport, whereas rather more things…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am encouraged by the Minister’s response, although I am not sure that the wording is exactly as it should be. I, like, I suspect, her, am very taken by the idea of a backpack on…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 226, page 162, line 7, schedule 6, after “product” insert “and the expected total environmental impact the product will have throughout its life”. This…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I have no idea what amendment 226 is about—or at least I have not got it in front of me.10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 18, in schedule 6, page 161, line 21, leave out “may” and insert “must”. This is another “may” and “must” amendment. Hon. Members are familiar with the…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Just to add to my colleagues’ excellent expositions, I draw the Committee’s attention to the wording of the schedule. It is headed “Producer responsibility for disposal…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)The Minister has given some good and solid assurances concerning what she thinks the clause could be interpreted to mean. Clearly, the fact that she has said that this morning…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Gentleman tempts me to go down a detailed path of discussing subterranean water outlets. I assume, because water is within our land mass, that those would be covered by…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Member will see that the Bill merely contents itself with the word “water”, which can have a number of different interpretations. In this instance, it has a substantially…10 Nov 2020