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HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]Those funds are vital. Bathing water status is important. We hope that DEFRA will come out with new criteria soon so that places such as the River Kent can bid to be included. We…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]Will the right hon. Lady give way?28 Jan 2025HANSARD Solar Farms: Agricultural LandThe Minister is being very generous; I am grateful. The concern is that farmers are often pushed into things that they would not choose initially—such as giving over productive…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Solar Farms: Agricultural LandMy hon. Friend is being super generous and I am grateful to her. She makes excellent points. We obviously have means by which we can control how those things happen, through the…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]Let me say, without going through all the flowery stuff that we did earlier, that I am grateful to Members in all parts of the House for what has been a broadly collegiate debate.…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]I pay tribute to the Minister and the Bill team from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs who are in the Chamber, as well as to all my colleagues who sat on the…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]Somebody representing the water industry will say that the water industry, as structured, is deeply unappealing to investors. There is a case for changing the model of how we…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]I strongly agree with my hon. Friend. The water companies simply do not fear Ofwat, or indeed any other part of our fragmented regulatory system. They dwarf Ofwat in terms of…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Storm ÉowynWill the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ensure that resilience funding goes to the farmers who need it? Finally, will he meet the electricity companies to consider how they…27 Jan 2025HANSARD Storm ÉowynI thank the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for advance sight of his statement and for his thoughtful presentation of it. As he said, Storm Éowyn may well have been the…27 Jan 2025HANSARD Storm ÉowynHave I gone over it?27 Jan 2025HANSARDClinical AcademicsThe new Pears medical school at the University of Cumbria and the Lancaster University medical school, among others, are struggling to recruit and retain medical academic staff,…27 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsSchools in Westmorland have been told that they will have to meet the costs of teacher pay rises next year, at least in part, from existing funds and by making efficiencies. Does…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSecond Homes: Use Class4. If she will make it her policy to introduce a new planning use class for second homes.20 Jan 2025HANSARDSecond Homes: Use ClassI am encouraged by the Minister’s reply. Towns and communities in my constituency, such as Coniston, Hawkshead, Pooley Bridge and a whole range of other beautiful places, have so…20 Jan 2025HANSARD New Hospital Programme ReviewThe acute hospital that serves most of my constituency is the Royal Lancaster infirmary. It is an overcrowded Victorian hospital; parts of it are falling to bits, it has…20 Jan 2025HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for her intervention. What we are talking about, though, is a toolkit that is being provided for the voluntary sector and for activists up and down the…16 Jan 2025HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)We pushed the Minister earlier on the Cunliffe review. I thought it had been explicitly stated that ownership was off the table for that review. By talking about mutuals being a…16 Jan 2025HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)We are not going to push this to a vote. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Clause, by leave, withdrawn.16 Jan 2025HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)I will say a brief word on the new clause. This is important, and I would like to add to the detail that my hon. Friend the Member for Witney has set out. Essentially, we have two…16 Jan 2025