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HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning, gentlemen. The Bill is generally recognised as having some good bits, on recycling materials and end-of-life concerns about materials in the part on waste and…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q One thing we have not heard this morning, in the context of how the OEP and the targets that are to be set might work, is the fact that all this is taking over from the…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q I will try not to take too long; I know that people want to get home. One part of the plastics concern in the Bill is about transfrontier exports. As a result of the powers that…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q Turning to another part of the Bill, as you know there is a section concerning single-use plastics and proposals to raise a tax on them to discourage their use. Is the emphasis…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning. I would like to start with some thoughts about the Office for Environmental Protection. You will have seen from the structure of the Bill that the office will be…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q Following on from that, the OEP is substantially seen as the guarantor, as it were, that the standards of environmental protection that existed when the UK was a member of the…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q I know that there has been a considerable amount of discussion among environmental and green groups about how the Office for Environmental Protection will work within the Bill,…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q On a slightly different topic, the question of building waste wood in the waste stream has been a live issue for quite a while, and the extent to which legislation should be…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q In the context of recovery strategies, one suggestion is that permissions for, say, residential building could require a target of a specified percentage of canopy cover on…10 Mar 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon. Before our break, we were talking about local nature recovery strategies. There is obviously a requirement in the Bill to have regard to such strategies in…10 Mar 2020HANSARDCOP26Every country has to submit its contribution to climate action before COP26 meets. Why is the Secretary of State preparing the UK’s contribution statement on the basis of the…03 Mar 2020HANSARD Environment BillWe have had an excellent, thoughtful and informed debate, with contributions from many hon. Members from across the House. The several maiden speeches we heard this afternoon were…26 Feb 2020HANSARDUK Oil and Gas IndustryI congratulate the hon. Member for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (Andrew Bowie) on securing the debate. I follow the hon. Member for Aberdeen North (Kirsty Blackman), and I am…25 Feb 2020HANSARDUK Oil and Gas IndustryThe question of a windfall tax depends to a considerable extent on the health of the industry as a whole. Members have mentioned what revenues may arise for development purposes,…25 Feb 2020HANSARDWaste Incineration FacilitiesI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Washington and Sunderland West (Mrs Hodgson) on securing the debate. As she said, it is our second debate on the matter in recent…11 Feb 2020HANSARDWaste Incineration FacilitiesAbsolutely. Part of moving up the waste hierarchy involves a proper and full accounting of what goes in and out at each stage of the process. I recently asked the Minister to…11 Feb 2020HANSARDWaste Incineration FacilitiesThe hon. Member read my mind. I was about to say that I do not want to blame local authorities for the actions that they have taken over a time when they have had no money to deal…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTree PlantingDoes the Secretary of State accept that the prime purpose of planting trees in the present climate crisis is to provide an effective carbon sink to produce the negative carbon…06 Feb 2020HANSARDDraft Electricity Supplier Obligations (Excluded Electricity) (Amendment) Regulations 2019How dispatchable and flexible does the Minister think nuclear power in the future will be, bearing in mind that that is what we particularly will need, in terms of baseload, for…03 Feb 2020HANSARDDraft Electricity Supplier Obligations (Excluded Electricity) (Amendment) Regulations 2019We still do not know what constitutes a company in difficulty.03 Feb 2020