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Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill 2005-06

Debate on bills on Wednesday, 29 March 2006, in the House of Commons.
Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill. Programme motion (No 2) on consideration of Lords amendments and subsequent stages. Agreed to on question. Consideration of Lords amendments. Lords amendments 1 to 16, 18 to 64 agreed to. Amendment proposed to Lords amendment 17 negatived on division (162 to 380) and Lords amendment agreed to.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

444 c935-65 

Session

2005-06

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Legislative stage

Lords amendments

Procedure

Programme motions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill . Lords amendments.
Monday, 27 March 2006
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 444 c935 (Link to this contribution) I draw the House’s attention to the fact that privilege is involved in Lords amendment No. 19. If th...
Peter Atkinson | 444 c959 (Link to this contribution) If a claim was made for a BOAT before 20 January 2005 and it fails, can the Minister confirm that an...

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Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c958 (Link to this contribution) Some of the amendments that we are making will enable people who need to access their property to co...
David Drew | 444 c958 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister clarify the issue of easements, particularly where it involves a public body such ...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c958-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s comments, especially those relating to my officials who have done...
James Paice | 444 c952-3 (Link to this contribution) My sincere apologies, Mr. Deputy Speaker. With the leave of the House—I was told to say that, but I ...
James Paice | 444 c963 (Link to this contribution) Far be it from me perennially to refer to the fact that local authorities are deprived of resources ...
David Drew | 444 c963 (Link to this contribution) In Gloucestershire, we have not had this problem because there is a degree of amicable arrangement b...
James Paice | 444 c962-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I think that the Minister said that he is going to issue guidance. ...
Peter Atkinson | 444 c962 (Link to this contribution) I want to express my thanks to the Minister for listening to the representations from my constituent...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c959-60 (Link to this contribution) That is certainly my understanding. If the situation is any different, I will write to the hon. Gent...
Paddy Tipping | 444 c963 (Link to this contribution) The Under-Secretary has also promised to issue guidance. It is clear that we need to have a firm vie...
Natascha Engel | 444 c964 (Link to this contribution) I am especially pleased to follow the hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) because ...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c965 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Speaker | 444 c949 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Minister is supposed to be speaking to amendment (a) to Lords amendment No. 17.
James Paice | 444 c944-7 (Link to this contribution) I presume that it is in order for me to address the whole group, as all the amendments in it relate ...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 444 c947-8 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support the amendments tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (...
Chris Huhne | 444 c947 (Link to this contribution) I shall, if I may, address some of the issues arising from other provisions that have already been a...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c951-2 (Link to this contribution) I was going to deal with that question when I responded to some of the points made by the hon. Membe...
Speaker | 444 c952 (Link to this contribution) Order. Technically, the hon. Gentleman needs the leave of the House.
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c951 (Link to this contribution) Let me just make a little more progress, and then I will give way. The Court found that the interpr...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c950-1 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly look into the point that the right hon. Gentleman makes and find a suitable opportu...
Lord McLoughlin | 444 c950 (Link to this contribution) The Minister was unable to help the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann), but he recently visited m...
Philip Hollobone | 444 c936 (Link to this contribution) The Minister mentioned that the compulsory purchase powers did not need to be included in the Bill. ...
Speaker | 444 c935 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 2, 3, 6, 19, 34 and 64.
James Paice | 444 c944 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment (a) to the Lords amendment.
Chris Huhne | 444 c943 (Link to this contribution) I, too, would be interested to hear the Minister’s reply to the points raised by the hon. Member for...
Speaker | 444 c942 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendment No. 16.
Chris Huhne | 444 c941 (Link to this contribution) : I am also happy to support the amendments, with which we broadly agree. There is a contrast betwee...
Speaker | 444 c939 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 12 to 14, 40 and 41.
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c940 (Link to this contribution) Just to assist the hon. Gentleman and others, we have put some guidance on this in the Library to he...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c938-9 (Link to this contribution) During Lords Committee, we were asked to consider whether any guidance that is published by the S...
Speaker | 444 c935 (Link to this contribution) Order. Will hon. Members who are leaving the Chamber do so as quickly and quietly as possible?
Paddy Tipping | 444 c958 (Link to this contribution) May I take this opportunity to thank my hon. Friend for all the listening that he has done on this p...
Speaker | 444 c957 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 21 to 26, Lords amendment No. 27 and amendments (a)...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c957 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment. Amendment No. 20 remove...
Speaker | 444 c957 (Link to this contribution) Order. Conversations are breaking out in the House. Hon. Members should listen to the Minister.
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c957-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Amendment No. 20 removes clause 62(1)(b), the aim of which is to ens...
Lord Mann | 444 c961 (Link to this contribution) I can only give detailed illustrations from my own constituency, where the scale of the problem is r...
James Paice | 444 c961-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. It may well be that the number of applications for individual routes is...
Lord Mann | 444 c961 (Link to this contribution) Do the hon. Gentleman’s figures relate to applications or to the number of routes? For example, in m...
James Paice | 444 c961 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. He is absolutely right and I am happy to agree with him. We can...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c965 (Link to this contribution) Amendment No. 29 responds to a small but important point picked up by the Delegated Powers and Dereg...
Chris Huhne | 444 c964 (Link to this contribution) I am mindful of the hour and I shall therefore be brief. We were minded to support the Conservative ...
Andrew MacKay | 444 c964-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Under-Secretary sincerely for the Lords amendments, which were similar to those that I w...
Speaker | 444 c965 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 30 to 31, and 42 to 55.
Peter Bone | 444 c948 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government seem to be rushing? An appeal has been lodged, so woul...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 444 c948-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree precisely with my hon. Friend. An appeal is under way, and my hon. Friend the Member for Sou...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c949 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c949-50 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for that helpful guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker. I oppose amendment (a). The effect of am...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c950 (Link to this contribution) As ever, my hon. Friend is ingenious in finding ways to make representations on important causes, an...
James Paice | 444 c952 (Link to this contribution) Lords amendment No. 33 reaches the heart of the Meyrick judgment on what natural beauty is by defini...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c952 (Link to this contribution) Lords amendment No. 17 specifically and only deals with national parks. Lords amendment No. 33 addre...
Chris Huhne | 444 c937-8 (Link to this contribution) Liberal Democrat Members also support the amendments—consensus is clearly breaking out—and I join th...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c936 (Link to this contribution) The powers have never been used by the Countryside Agency. We have been convinced that it is not nec...
James Paice | 444 c936-7 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the Minister’s remarks about the work done in the other place. That is a first class examp...
Speaker | 444 c944 (Link to this contribution) With this we can consider amendment (b) to the Lords amendment and Lords amendments Nos. 18, 33 and ...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c943-4 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I should like to respond as best I can to the points that hon. Members ...
James Paice | 444 c942-3 (Link to this contribution) When the Minister talks about cartographical discrepancies, I hope to God that he is not talking abo...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c942 (Link to this contribution) The amendments do two important things. The first is a small facilitating measure that will benefit ...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c942 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
James Paice | 444 c941 (Link to this contribution) The Animal Welfare Bill is not yet an Act because it has not been before the other place, which will...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c939-40 (Link to this contribution) Clause 44 contains the powers available to inspectors authorised by the Secretary of State in Englan...
James Paice | 444 c940 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for explaining the issues behind the amendments, which I welcome. As h...
Speaker | 444 c938 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 5, 7 to 10, 28, 32, 38, 39 and 56 to 63.
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c938 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c939 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c935-6 (Link to this contribution) Before I speak to the first group of amendments, I would like to thank peers in the other place, par...
Lord Mann | 444 c950 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that the designation of the Yorkshire Dales national park also ought to incl...
Chris Huhne | 444 c941 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to correct me. I hope that we can prevail on Ministers to do as he sugge...
James Paice | 444 c941 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for saying that he has put the guidance in the Library. I hope that he...
James Paice | 444 c960-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his comments and we mostly welcome this group of amendments. The M...
James Paice | 444 c963-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that we need clear guidance. I shall not pursue my amendment but we have...
Peter Bone | 444 c951 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister deal with the point about the appeal that has been lodged? Why do we need to have ...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 444 c935 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.

Subjects

Codes of practice
Cultural heritage
Inspections
Enforcement
Environment protection
Motor vehicles
Nature conservation
Motorcycles
Pesticides
National parks
Rights of way
Wildlife
Rural areas
Sites of special scientific interest
Commission for Rural Communities
Natural England

Legislation

Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill 2005-06

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