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Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 6 June 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Beckett. The answering member was Oliver Letwin.
Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill. Second reading debate. Amendment negatived on division (179 to 349). Main question agreed to on question. Programme motion on proceedings in standing committee, report and third reading agreed to on division (342 to 186). Money resolution and ways and means resolution agreed to on question (formal).

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

434 c1006-100 

Session

2005-06

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Programme motions
Money resolutions
Ways and means resolutions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

The government's rural delivery strategy and the draft Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill. Government response to the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee fifth report of session 2004-05 (HC 408).
Thursday, 26 May 2005
Command papers
House of Commons
Draft Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill. Minutes of evidence 1 March 2005.(Printed in HC 408)
Tuesday, 1 March 2005
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Theresa Villiers | 434 c1060-3 (Link to this contribution) It is an immense honour for me to give my maiden speech today. I pay tribute to all the thoughtful a...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 434 c1070-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to have caught your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, to make my maiden speech in today’s deb...

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John Penrose | 434 c1063-6 (Link to this contribution) I compliment everyone who made their maiden speech earlier today, including my hon. Friend the Membe...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 434 c1078-82 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) on his maiden speech. I am e...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 434 c1075-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech. I pay tribu...
Lee Scott | 434 c1053-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech in this debate on the Natural Environment...
Robert Goodwill | 434 c1051-3 (Link to this contribution) As the new Member for Scarborough and Whitby, I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden sp...
Jeremy Wright | 434 c1056-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make my maiden speech in this debate. I am delig...
Baroness Browning | 434 c1011 (Link to this contribution) As the Secretary of State is to deal with that point, will she also take on board pieces of legislat...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1011 (Link to this contribution) I certainly give my hon. Friend that assurance, and I am coming to that point in a moment.
David Kidney | 434 c1010-1 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the great successes of the Countryside Agency has been t...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1010 (Link to this contribution) If it were seriously suggested that guidance was needed, we would certainly look carefully into it a...
Norman Baker | 434 c1010 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State mentioned that one function is to promote access. Another is to promote biodi...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1009-10 (Link to this contribution) I certainly undertake to reflect on the hon. Gentleman’s point. We will look with great care into th...
Lord McLoughlin | 434 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I should like to take the Secretary of State back briefly to the Peak District national park. Much c...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I can give the hon. Gentleman that absolute assurance. I am grateful to him for his intervention and...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1011 (Link to this contribution) I have heard the concerns that the hon. Lady has expressed. It was my impression that much of the an...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1012-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes another important point. It is very much the Government’s hope and intention th...
Tom Levitt | 434 c1012 (Link to this contribution) The commission will presumably look for partners in seeking to pursue its agenda. Does my right hon....
Paddy Tipping | 434 c1013 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1012 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right and I take her point entirely. It is because the Bill makes different arrang...
Joan Walley | 434 c1011-2 (Link to this contribution) On the priorities for the rural aspects of the Bill and the partnerships that my right hon. Friend w...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1012 (Link to this contribution) We principally envisage that the commission will be able to draw on work by the research councils. W...
Robert Key | 434 c1012 (Link to this contribution) Before the Secretary of State leaves the commission for rural communities, I was delighted to see th...
Paddy Tipping | 434 c1013-4 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State rightly stressed the importance of legislation on rights of way and vehicles....
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1011 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give the right hon. Gentleman that information at the moment. If we have it available to us...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1016 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the editor of that magazine was wrong if that was his view. For a long while, we ha...
Lord Mann | 434 c1015-6 (Link to this contribution) During the general election campaign, a trail rider in my constituency brought my attention to an ar...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1015 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, To leave out from ““That”” to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:"““...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1014-5 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to my hon. Friend but I am almost at the end of my speech. As the right hon. Member for...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1018-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is ingenious.I suspect that our approach might recommend itself to him, given his...
Norman Baker | 434 c1018 (Link to this contribution) : I am interested in the philosophical direction that the right hon. Gentleman is taking. I hope tha...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1016-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. That is exactly the point that I am making. I...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1014 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that we can, but if we can, we will. I understand that the issue gives rise to strong ...
Tom Levitt | 434 c1021 (Link to this contribution) : Can the right hon. Gentleman point to ways in which English Nature, the Countryside Agency and oth...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1020-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. He will recall from the recent months in which he and I worked together in ...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1021-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. In a way, I am sorry that you did not allow the hon. Member for Hig...
Speaker | 434 c1021 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions are meant to be brief, although I have given some liberty.
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1022 (Link to this contribution) I am about to address the hon. Gentleman’s second point, which he will have cause to regret making, ...
Tom Levitt | 434 c1022 (Link to this contribution) I repeat—briefly, so that I can make a second point, Madam Deputy Speaker—that such confusion is not...
Norman Baker | 434 c1022 (Link to this contribution) : I listened carefully to the right hon. Gentleman’s recitation of Baroness Young’s comments. Will h...
David Drew | 434 c1019 (Link to this contribution) : I think that the hon. Gentleman has fallen into an old trap, which some of us feel is a great dang...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1019-20 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman in his premise, but his conclusion is entirely a non sequitur. He is...
Lord Bellingham | 434 c1020 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that people living in places such as the Norfolk broads want a body ...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 434 c1006 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker.
Speaker | 434 c1006 (Link to this contribution) Order. Let me answer the hon. and learned Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier). The hon. Lady may not...
Speaker | 434 c1006 (Link to this contribution) I should inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the name of the Leader of the Opposi...
Lord Garnier | 434 c1006 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. After the statement that we have just had, my point of order may s...
Tom Levitt | 434 c1008 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend’s glowing description of England’s green and pleasant land could have been a de...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I can certainly assure my hon. Friend on his first point: the Bill will do nothing to hinder—and, ...
Peter Ainsworth | 434 c1009 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady did herself less than justice in replying to the hon. Member for Colchester (Bob...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 434 c1006 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The House should be given the right to look again at th...
Speaker | 434 c1006 (Link to this contribution) We are not going on to a procedural debate. We are going on to a Second Reading debate.
Michael Clapham | 434 c1007-8 (Link to this contribution) One such area of social disadvantage is the villages in rural communities such as mine that have no ...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1008 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point and I understand his concern for the welfare of his constitu...
Bob Russell | 434 c1008 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State’s colourful description of the countryside, but 97 per cent. of the...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1008 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be aware that one does not put absolutely everything in the structure of leg...
Martin Horwood | 434 c1058-60 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Mr. Goodwill) on his maiden speech. I als...
Angela C Smith | 434 c1073-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for North-East Milton Keynes (Mr. Lancaster) on his maiden speech and...
Michael Jack | 434 c1066-70 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Weston-Super-Mare (John Penrose). My consti...
Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 434 c1083-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to take part in the debate. Hearing so many great maiden speeches ...
Roger Williams | 434 c1082-3 (Link to this contribution) I compliment the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Herbert) on his maiden speech. The pri...
Lord Mann | 434 c1047-9 (Link to this contribution) A work permit system needs to ensure that people are able to work in the UK if there is a demand for...
Lord Mann | 434 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that clarification, which shows that we should be tackling the menace eve...
Paddy Tipping | 434 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the substance of my hon. Friend’s argument, but wish to clarify one point. The desert, ...
Lord Mann | 434 c1050 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point, which is exemplified by some of the websites. I have re...
Robert Walter | 434 c1050 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will recall that in the last Session I introduced a ten-minute Bill on this very ...
Lord Mann | 434 c1050-1 (Link to this contribution) I have no objection if a farmer in my constituency wishes to set up a route for people to go round o...
Roger Williams | 434 c1050 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s presence in my constituency and his knowledge of the problems gives me cause fo...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 434 c1091 (Link to this contribution) I fear that I may run out of time, but I will give way if I can. Benefit will come, for example, as ...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 434 c1091 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly look further into that and publish any correction, if necessary, in the Library. R...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1091 (Link to this contribution) I am immensely grateful to the Minister. Briefly, will he place a note in the Library to correct par...
Robert Walter | 434 c1084-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate all who have delivered their maiden speeches this evening. They were excellent and th...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 434 c1087-91 (Link to this contribution) This has been an excellent and welcome early debate on rural affairs, putting the Bill into a wider ...
James Paice | 434 c1085-7 (Link to this contribution) This is an important Bill for the English and Welsh countryside, as has been made clear by the quali...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 434 c1091-2 (Link to this contribution) Yes, including challenges relating to wild flowers, about which the hon. Member for Colchester (Bob ...
Bob Russell | 434 c1091 (Link to this contribution) Including those involving wild flowers.
Paddy Tipping | 434 c1026 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has made some interesting points; they were also made by the Select Committ...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1026 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman looks at Hansard in due course, he will see that I very carefully used the ter...
Paddy Tipping | 434 c1025-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is always helpful in these matters and with whom I share a ...
Paddy Tipping | 434 c1025 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head. If I can find my copy of the Bill, I will refer him to the...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1023-4 (Link to this contribution) Because my right hon. Friend and I have discussed these matters—he sent me to the Library to read th...
Paddy Tipping | 434 c1024-5 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting to reflect that we have just come through a general election campaign in which the...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1023 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has produced the most marvellous example of the effect of the power of direction....
Michael Jack | 434 c1023 (Link to this contribution) : Perhaps my right hon. Friend’s assiduous reading of the Select Committee evidence did not include ...
Paddy Tipping | 434 c1029-30 (Link to this contribution) I am pretty sure that the right hon. Gentleman made a plea that we look at this in Committee and I a...
David Drew | 434 c1029 (Link to this contribution) As always, my hon. Friend speaks with great knowledge of this matter. Having chaired the sub-committ...
Paddy Tipping | 434 c1028-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. I want to build on her comments about local authorities. I ...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c1029 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman agrees that it is difficult to imagine how Human Rights Act considera...
Paddy Tipping | 434 c1029 (Link to this contribution) I agree that the Agricultural Wages Board is an important body, and I shall make a point on schedule...
Paddy Tipping | 434 c1026-7 (Link to this contribution) Of course I agree with the right hon. Gentleman, the former Chairman of the Select Committee, that i...
David Kidney | 434 c1027 (Link to this contribution) May I clarify that my hon. Friend is talking about regional development agencies such as Advantage W...
Paddy Tipping | 434 c1027-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that correction. There are some excellent regional development a...
Madeleine Moon | 434 c1028 (Link to this contribution) As a Welsh Member, it ill behoves me perhaps to comment on the creation of natural England but, duri...
Michael Jack | 434 c1026 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman did an excellent job in chairing the sub-Committee that considered this legislati...
David Kidney | 434 c1037-8 (Link to this contribution) That is a reasonable argument but, to give one example of rural-proofing, the Countryside Agency has...
Colin Breed | 434 c1037 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that DEFRA could not undertake the role that the CRC will be given? If...
David Kidney | 434 c1037 (Link to this contribution) That is a good point and it was raised many times in the pre-legislative scrutiny responses that I m...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 434 c1037 (Link to this contribution) I accept the statements by the bodies that the hon. Gentleman mentions, but can he assure us that na...
Norman Baker | 434 c1030-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that the first Second Reading debate of this Parliament is of an environment Bill...
David Kidney | 434 c1032-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is espousing the position of Lord Haskins, who argued in his report that once an ...
Norman Baker | 434 c1035 (Link to this contribution) I agree; the Government had an open consultation exercise to which they received a large number of r...
David Kidney | 434 c1035-7 (Link to this contribution) I heard on the radio this morning that the shadow Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for West...
Norman Baker | 434 c1033-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes, as set out in the Bill and in the light of the structure proposed for natural England, it makes...
Roger Williams | 434 c1035 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to my hon. Friend’s point; the Bill will probably make some progress on the matter. ...
Lord Mann | 434 c1046-7 (Link to this contribution) Noting the packed Labour Benches behind me and given the intense competition that will ensue, I humb...
Brian Binley | 434 c1047 (Link to this contribution) I accept some of the things that the hon. Gentleman is saying about work permits. Does he agree that...
Colin Breed | 434 c1038 (Link to this contribution) The remaining function of the Countryside Agency will be to perform that very role and it will be a ...
David Kidney | 434 c1038-40 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman and I both serve in Committee, I look forward to taking the debate further. I ...
James Paice | 434 c1040-1 (Link to this contribution) Is not the hon. Gentleman arguing against himself? He has just praised RDAs and the devolution to th...
David Kidney | 434 c1041-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree for two reasons. First, I was not praising the giving of powers to RDAs, but my RDA i...
Robert Key | 434 c1043-5 (Link to this contribution) The health and sustainable prosperity of the countryside and rural economy are extremely important t...
Roger Williams | 434 c1045 (Link to this contribution) : I agree with the hon. Gentleman that there are responsible users of motor cycles and four-wheel-dr...
Robert Key | 434 c1045-6 (Link to this contribution) That is right, and it brings us to the issue of the recreational use of farmland. We have had our li...
Lord McLoughlin | 434 c1016 (Link to this contribution) : Not only is there consensus, but I said in my election address that something needed to be done ab...
Michael Jack | 434 c1011 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State outlined in her opening remarks the tightness of the timetable that she wishe...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c1007 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The Bill lays the foundations for a more ho...

Subjects

Access
Disadvantaged
Biodiversity
Departmental responsibilities
Enforcement
Environment protection
Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Motor vehicles
Nature conservation
Pesticides
Rights of way
Wildlife
Rural areas
Sites of special scientific interest
Cycleways
Commission for Rural Communities
Inland Waterways Advisory Council
Natural England

Legislation

Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill 2005-06

Link

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