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HANSARDTopical QuestionsFollowing consultations on the two schemes my hon. Friend mentions, intensive work is going on in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make all the schemes…17 Nov 2022HANSARDShark Fins BillIt is a pleasure to serve under you, Mrs Cummins, and it is a pleasure to be back. What a wonderful first Bill to be back for; it is always great to be part of a Bill Committee…16 Nov 2022HANSARDShark Fins BillOf course, and I thank my hon. Friend for that good point. We have a paragraph in the schedule about the way the penalties work and the appropriate authority can revoke the…16 Nov 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillIt was actually this Government, through the Environment Act 2021, who set up the Office for Environmental Protection, knowing that it is so important to be seen to be doing the…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillIt is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn). I welcome the Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, my hon.…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI thank the hon. Member for that, but we have had assurances from the Minister that he is going to engage with us. I think it behoves us all to get involved in that, and to…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am obviously not party to all these things, but I believe the COP26 President is just not attending Cabinet but is keeping his position, and rightly so. I was touching on our…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI will press on because I think I will be under pressure—I will perhaps give way in a minute. We have set a whole framework, and we need our protections to help that work to…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Billrose —19 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillI thank my right hon. Friend for graciously giving way. He might want to clarify that this debate is a bit of a game, and is not exactly about fracking. If we are talking about…19 Oct 2022HANSARDEngagementsI fully support this Government’s growth agenda, but would the Prime Minister agree that that can be achieved while also protecting and restoring our precious nature and…12 Oct 2022HANSARDSewage DischargesI will get straight to the point. For the record, this Government did not vote to allow raw sewage to be discharged into rivers. On the contrary, it was this Government, through a…12 Oct 2022HANSARDTributes to Her Late Majesty The QueenI am honoured to be able to pay tribute to the remarkable life of Her late Majesty, who has touched all our hearts in so many ways, bringing comfort and guidance to all of us…09 Sept 2022HANSARDSewage PollutionI will cry in a minute! Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is this Government who have prioritised this issue of tackling sewage discharges, with the monitoring, the…06 Sept 2022HANSARDBTEC QualificationsObviously I am speaking up for BTECs, but I also think the Government are going in absolutely the right direction in terms of skills and opportunities, recognising that they need…18 Jul 2022HANSARDBTEC QualificationsI thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. That is exactly the point that I was trying to make. We are demonstrating that that is what is happening in Somerset. I certainly want…18 Jul 2022HANSARDBTEC QualificationsThat is another well-made point. All those things must go into the mix in making sure that we get this right for our young people. Another example is a student who studied the…18 Jul 2022HANSARDBTEC QualificationsI thank my hon. Friend for that point. I think that we all recognise that our students have come through a very difficult time. Indeed, the colleges, in planning, also need some…18 Jul 2022HANSARDBTEC QualificationsI am not always the first person to agree with the Opposition, but I think we have a lot of synergy here. What is most important is putting students first and coming up with what…18 Jul 2022HANSARDBTEC QualificationsThat is a really good point. It was not raised by people in my area—it may not be the case there—but the case certainly has been made that T-levels are basically the equivalent of…18 Jul 2022