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HANSARD Flood Prevention: Rainwater Attenuation and ReservoirsWater supply reservoirs play a significant role in ensuring that our communities, businesses and public services have ready access to water whenever they want and need it. Water…09 Mar 2020HANSARD Flood Prevention: Rainwater Attenuation and ReservoirsWe are in agreement on a lot of these things. Down the track, we need to look at the amount of water consumed and indeed, the leakage, which many water companies now have to look…09 Mar 2020HANSARD Flood Prevention: Rainwater Attenuation and ReservoirsMr Speaker, it is a pleasure, as ever, to have you in the Chair for these late-night debates. First, I congratulate the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Matt Western) on…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFloodingI will not take any interventions, because I want to refer to a lot of Members who have spoken. I reiterate that this has been an unprecedented time. February 2020 was the wettest…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFloodingI want to point out that this is still a live flooding incident and the outlook is unsettled, although I am pleased to say that in some areas the journey to recovery is beginning.…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFloodingAs ever, it is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker. Unfortunately, as we all know, flooding does not discriminate, as shown by the many impassioned…04 Mar 2020HANSARD Environment BillI am pleased to see you back in the Chair for the winding up of this most important of debates, Mr Speaker. Having worked on the environmental agenda in one form or another for…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillI am not going to take any interventions because I want to get through some of the details. The Government must have a plan on what they intend to do to improve the…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillI am not going to give way. That independence is vital for the OEP to be able to hold the Government to account effectively. It will have multi-annual financial settlements, which…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Environment BillI am really not going to give way, because I have not given way to anybody else. I know that my hon. Friend is a huge tree fan. We will shortly consult on a new English tree…26 Feb 2020HANSARDLandfill Sites: OdourIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher; I do not think I have had the pleasure of doing so before. I must congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for…25 Feb 2020HANSARDLandfill Sites: OdourI get my hon. Friend’s point, but the permit conditions require an Environment Agency officer to make a judgment about whether the odour is offensive. Enforcement action can be…25 Feb 2020HANSARDLandfill Sites: OdourI thank my right hon. Friend for her intervention, but I want to go on about landfill in particular, because we are desperately trying to reduce the amount going to landfill. The…25 Feb 2020HANSARDLandfill Sites: OdourI thank my hon. Friend for that point; I thought he was going to make a negative intervention, but it was positive. The example he raises is the direction we are going in, and I…25 Feb 2020HANSARD Marine LicensingFirst, I think this is the first time that I have had the honour of speaking while you are in the Chair, Mr Speaker. It is a pleasure. Secondly, I congratulate my hon. Friend the…12 Feb 2020HANSARDWaste Incineration FacilitiesVery briefly.11 Feb 2020HANSARDWaste Incineration FacilitiesI must be clear that local waste planning authorities are responsible for identifying their waste management facility needs and for working out the best direction to take. The…11 Feb 2020HANSARDWaste Incineration FacilitiesIt is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I congratulate the hon. Member for Washington and Sunderland West (Mrs Hodgson) on securing the debate. She…11 Feb 2020HANSARDWaste Incineration FacilitiesI obviously answered the debate earlier in the year about the incinerator in the hon. Gentleman’s area. He raises an important point. Certainly, local authorities are responsible…11 Feb 2020HANSARDWaste Incineration FacilitiesOf course there is a place for commercial waste incinerators, which is what my right hon. Friend refers to. We have in place an entire system of structures, permits, and checks…11 Feb 2020