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HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister, because this is very important and the hon. Member for Newport West was right to raise it. Those of us who have responsibilities as trade envoys are…10 Nov 2020HANSARDInnovation and New TechnologiesI welcome the Minister’s response. Does she agree more broadly that the UK should retain key technology assets where there is a national interest and that Arm Ltd’s capabilities…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Thirteenth sitting)My hon. Friend the Minister made a good point about making sure that the costs to the private sector involved in helping us recycle more come to a level at which it is important…10 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eleventh sitting)Gloucester.05 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eleventh sitting)We have seen today a number of further insinuations that the Office for Environmental Protection will be less than satisfactorily independent. This is the first time that such an…05 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Tenth sitting)We have to be serious about this. If the borough council is not cleaning a particular street in Putney properly, that is not an issue that the OEP should immediately jump at on…05 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Tenth sitting)The explanatory statement to Government amendment 208 lays out clearly that “the OEP may only bring an environmental review against a public authority if it is satisfied on the…05 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Tenth sitting)The OEP.05 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Tenth sitting)I fear that the shadow Minister has not read the explanatory statement clearly. It begins: “This amendment provides that the OEP” and refers to whether it is satisfied, and…05 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful for the shadow Minister’s comments. The key thing is that there is an important separation between the responsibilities of Select Committees and what a Government…05 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Tenth sitting)On a point of order, Sir George. In the Committee’s discussions on Tuesday, I noted that the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Southampton, Test, raised on a couple of…05 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthThere have been many powerful contributions, not least from my hon. Friend the Member for Wealden (Ms Ghani), which have stressed the importance of liberties, lives and…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 201, in clause 7, page 5, line 10, leave out “may” and insert “must”. This amendment would require the Government to include steps to improve people’s…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)The only disappointing aspect of this debate has been a relatively determined approach by some Opposition hon. Members in trying to demonstrate that the independence of this new…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)This is likely to be the shortest amendment proposed to the Bill. It simply substitutes the word “must” for “may” in clause 7, which would in turn require the Government to…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)Just for clarification, is the hon. Gentleman effectively saying that the Bill should provide the Treasury with an opportunity to give a blank cheque for whatever the Office for…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Eighth sitting)I am very grateful to the Minister for doing detailed research to anticipate most of the points that I was likely to raise. I am also grateful for the comments of the hon. Member…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)Will the Minister give way?03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I think I understand the position of the Opposition, which is to undermine slightly the independence of the new Office for Environmental Protection before it has even got under…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Ninth sitting)I am slightly confused that the shadow Minister appears to be suggesting that if we are a signatory to any convention in our own right, we are somehow a stronger signatory if we…03 Nov 2020