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HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I am afraid that we might be here discussing slightly dry propositions for a little while. Amendments 91 and 92 look at the wording in the Bill that relates to the proportionality…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)As it happens, yes. However, again, we are in “as it happens” territory, which we seem to be in rather a lot this afternoon. As it happens, yes, that appears to be working quite…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I am not suggesting that anything is other than that, and I am not suggesting that the Select Committees are anything other than pleased with what they have undertaken to do and…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)A very good one, if I may say, but nevertheless a speech. You are right, Mr Gray. The point the hon. Gentleman was making is that a process of scrutiny will, in this instance, be…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I was in the middle of a brief exposition of the word “proportionately”, as found in clause 16, which we were discussing this morning. As I mentioned, the clause requires that a…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I think J. L. Austin is very interesting, but others disagree. Indeed, the dictionary definition of “proportionately”, which underlines his point, is: “In a way that corresponds…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend makes a key point about the importance of the amendment. It is not just that many things pivot on it; one could almost go so far as to say that the whole thrust of…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)The Minister has yet again provided us with a description of things that happen, as opposed to what ought to happen as far as this House is concerned. On the second category of…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)The points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge are important in the wider context of the Bill. They explain why we are finding it difficult to easily track what the…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)That is precisely my view of what we should be doing in Committee and throughout the passage of the Bill. I hope that the Minister will reflect on whether the clause is really…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 89, in clause 8, page 5, line 32, at end insert— “and, (c) consider biodiversity reports published by authorities under section 40A of the Natural…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I am not sure that the Minister can point to the exact part of the Bill where those things take place in the way that she has suggested they do, although I am a little reassured…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)The hon. Member has put his finger exactly on the problem, because according to this piece of legislation, in practice, they do not. There is no requirement to do that in the…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)That is indeed a concern. We have raised, and will repeatedly raise, the difference between the Bill’s aspirations and many of the practicalities. The difference between the…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I think we have not got to amendment 197 yet.03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)Indeed, but I have not spoken to amendment 197.03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I wanted to say a few words about amendment 197.03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I beg to move amendment 155, in schedule 1, page 122, line 15, after sub-paragraph (4) insert “;but an appointment may be made in reliance on this sub-paragraph only with the…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)On a point of order, Mr Gray. I welcome you back to the Committee after our long break. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I also welcome Committee members back to…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 88, in clause 7, page 5, line 7, leave out subsection (4) and insert— “(4) The environmental improvement plan must include, as a minimum— (a) measures…03 Nov 2020