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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Tenth sitting)Clause 65 will allow a right of appeal in relation to the calculation of the amount of the levy payable by a developer. As environmental delivery plans include charging schedules,…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Tenth sitting)Let me make a couple of comments in response. First, I understand the point that has been made, but a fair amount of the detail will come through regulations. The House will have…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Tenth sitting)I appreciate where the hon. Gentleman is coming from. In the correspondence I will send to the Committee, I am more than happy to try to give hon. Members a sense of how the…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Tenth sitting)Clause 63 forms part of the wider group of clauses that provide the necessary powers to make regulations governing the operation of the nature restoration levy. The clause…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Tenth sitting)No—the amendment is entirely at odds with the purpose and intent of clause 61, which is to disapply the requirement for assessment of environmental impact of a feature covered by…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Tenth sitting)Let me make a couple of points in response. I did not state that a particular clause in the Bill, “effectively maintains the mitigation hierarchy”; I said that that was the…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Tenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve once again with you in the Chair, Mrs Hobhouse. Let me respond first to amendment 54, tabled by the hon. Member for North Herefordshire. I will then turn…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Tenth sitting)I am not going to give way, but the hon. Lady can make a further contribution. However, this will be only where Natural England consider it appropriate and would deliver better…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Tenth sitting)I will not give way again; I will make some progress. In reinstating as it does the requirement for site-by-site assessments before a levy could be accepted, the amendment is…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Ninth sitting)I appreciate why the shadow Minister raises that point. I am confident, for the following reasons. A six-week timeframe to challenge an EDP is in line with similar legislation on…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Ninth sitting)The clause sets out the approach to challenging an environmental delivery plan. As the obligations discharged through an EDP will not be subject to separate consideration at the…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Ninth sitting)As I set out, there is a requirement to go out to public consultation when significant amendments are made. That would be a general consultation, in the sense that we are moving…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Ninth sitting)I will happily write to the hon. Lady on where that is set out but, as per previous debates, I will not pre-empt our reflections on the OEP- specific points. I again make the…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Ninth sitting)It will be for Natural England to determine what conservation measures are in place. There are reporting requirements on Natural England in terms of the overall body of EDPs. On…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Ninth sitting)Let me set out for the Committee the intentions behind the clause, which gives the Secretary of State the power to amend environmental delivery plans in specific circumstances,…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Ninth sitting)To be clear, in assessing that the amendment in question would result in the need for continued assessment on a site-by-site basis, I am referring to amendment 20. I am absolutely…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Ninth sitting)I will give way to the hon. Lady one last time, then I will address the point made by the hon. Member for Taunton and Wellington.15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Ninth sitting)I am not sure how comparable they are. We are very mindful—this is something I was aware of before becoming a Minister, but it has certainly been brought home to me since—of the…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Tenth sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for that intervention. I will say two things. First, I again slightly caution against reading section 106 agreement provisions directly across into the…15 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Ninth sitting)I will give someone else a chance, but I am happy to come back to the hon. Lady.15 May 2025