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HANSARD Environment BillI am going to make a bit of progress, but I will come back to my hon. Friend in a moment if I can. We simply cannot allow our environmental standards to be undercut in the same…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman and will like more of his Instagram posts as a reward for that kind intervention. We do need to address air quality around airports and…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillI will make some progress before taking further interventions, mindful of the people who are to follow. As a nation, we need a gold-standard Environment Bill. I agree with the…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillThe details on regression and non-regression are an important part of this Bill. We need to make sure we maintain our high standards, because those high standards, especially in…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention and for all the work that she and her Welsh colleagues have been doing in supporting communities that are under water. We need…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillI am grateful for that intervention. It is a good reminder that one way in which we have decarbonised in the past few years has simply been by exporting our carbon; we export not…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillI am a big fan of the hon. Gentleman’s Instagram feed and follow it with great passion, and sometimes I feel a bit disappointed by interventions such as that. We cannot afford not…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. Since 2010 we have seen that quangos and regulators can still exist but their ability to deliver that regulation and the quality of…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillI will not take any further interventions, so that I can finish my remarks. [Interruption.] I say that, but that would have been a good time for one. I come to the section of my…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillThe climate crisis is the most pressing issue facing our planet. The actions we take in the next few years will determine whether we can address the climate emergency or whether…26 Feb 2020HANSARDFloodingI would like to thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement and welcome him to his role. I have a lot of time for my fellow west country MP. I regard him as…24 Feb 2020HANSARD Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) BillThe right hon. Gentleman makes a very good point. I would not wish to sit on a Parole Board for all the money in the world. It must be incredibly difficult to choose whether or…11 Feb 2020HANSARD Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Telford (Lucy Allan) who has done so much to champion justice especially for those people who have been abused as children. I…11 Feb 2020HANSARD Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) BillI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, and the way in which Ministers have merged two campaign asks in a single piece of natural justice is quite sensible. I have some…11 Feb 2020HANSARDFlood ResponseI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement. I join her in sending our condolences to the family of the man who died in Hampshire. On behalf of the…10 Feb 2020HANSARDImported Agricultural GoodsI am afraid that is not a good enough answer from the Environment Secretary, because unless there is a specific clause in the Agriculture Bill that guarantees that there will be…06 Feb 2020HANSARDImported Agricultural GoodsOn Monday, the Secretary of State heard from both Opposition MPs and MPs on her own Benches that she had to put our high environmental standards into law to prevent US agriculture…06 Feb 2020HANSARD Agriculture BillThe right hon. Gentleman is right that acetic acid is used in many cases instead of chlorine. Whether the infection is killed by acetic acid, chlorine, or any other process, the…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Agriculture BillThe hon. Gentleman is right. British farmers do not want lower standards; they are proud of the standards they uphold and we are proud of what they grow and how they grow it. What…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Agriculture BillI agree entirely. Sometimes there is a temptation to believe that, just because a dodgy socialist at a Dispatch Box said it, it must be untrue, but apparently there are an awful…03 Feb 2020