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HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I beg to move amendment 179, page 121, line 16, at end insert “with the consent of the Environmental Audit and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committees of the House of…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)This is potentially an important amendment. What we would expect to happen in a Bill is that as the legislation moves through its narrative, one part of the narrative connects to…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I commend the hon. Member for Gloucester on bringing the amendment forward. It is an important amendment in its own right. It is also important in terms of something we did at the…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I am sorry, but I am just not convinced. I will consider clause 7 in further detail later, but the gap that we have identified in terms of the connection between this part of the…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 90, in clause 8, page 5, line 32, at end insert “and, (c) include an analysis of whether the policies and measures set out in the environmental improvement…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I wonder whether the Minister will explain why—03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)Indeed. I am wondering in a non-specific way, Mr Gray, what the Minister might think about this issue, having responded to the debate so far. The provision that we wish to place…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend is right. The Broads came about as a result of peat extraction by Saxon and early medieval inhabitants of the area, and an amazing interlinked lakeland and wetland…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)Thank you, Mr Gray. I will, of course, follow your guidance closely, but I feel it is necessary to set out what part of the clause we seek to amend, and why, in order to explain…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I thoroughly agree with my hon. Friend, although it is perhaps going a little too far for an hon. Friend to say that I am involved in dry discussions. On his suggestion, I will…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 87, in clause 7, page 5, line 13, at end insert— “(5A) It may also set out the steps Her Majesty’s Government intends to take to improve the conservation…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I am putting that to the Committee for its comfort and security. However, there is a continuing real issue in the Bill with the way in which it has been drafted with those “mays”…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)That is right, but that is the OEP as it is up and running; this is about the OEP as it is formed. Our point on a number of things this afternoon has been that if we undermine the…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)The Minister spoke of the importance of getting things done now. After all the problems we have had, I cannot for the life of me see how that is in any way impacted by the idea…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)Well, I hope the Secretary of State will not be controlling him. [ Interruption. ] Or her. I hope the Secretary of State will scrupulously keep his or her hands out of controlling…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I wonder whether the Minister has considered at what point the interim chief executive of the OEP must be in place, bearing in mind that the actual chief executive is not to be…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I beg to move amendment 15, in schedule 1, page 122, line 5, leave out “may” and insert “must”.” The amendment asks for “may” to be left out and “must” to be inserted. As I…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)Yes, indeed, Mr Gray. I agree with my hon. Friend. It would be a good idea for the Government to put this in the Bill, notwithstanding the fact that, in practice, the creaking oak…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I beg to move amendment 154, in schedule 1, page 122, line 11, leave out sub-paragraph (3). This amendment prevents the Government from giving directions to the interim chief…03 Nov 2020