Climate Change and Biodiversity

I completely agree with the hon. Member’s question. We need to measure metrics and outcomes more ...

My hon. Friend’s debate highlights that it is in areas such as hers, which are very vulnerable to...

I quite agree with my hon. Friend. We have an issue with leaching from coastal landfill sites. We...

I thank my hon. Friend for calling this debate. She is a doughty champion for her constituents, w...

I thank my hon. Friend for a very good question. He is right: the public do really appreciate it ...

There are something like nine speakers and we have 38 minutes left, so I ask Members to take appr...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. I congratulate the hon. Member for Ha...

I welcome this important debate. It comes at a brilliant time. Only yesterday the Prime Minister ...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful argument. I completely agree; there can be no conflict betwee...

I agree completely. Time and investment must be given to ensure that those technologies actually ...

It is a pleasure to serve under your stewardship and oversight, Mr Gray. I congratulate the hon. ...

Very quickly on that point, the Somerset levels near my constituency contain 231 square miles of ...

Order. Interventions must be brief.

Does my hon. Friend agree that we need better targets?

I am grateful for the intervention. Peatland is hugely significant. It is more quickly restored t...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Mem...

The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill gives us only until December 2023 to adopt or ad...

As is so often the case, I need to correct the hon. Gentleman on the details of that legislation....

Order. We are outside the scope of the debate.

To come back to biodiversity and moving towards net zero, it is important that we boost our biodi...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. Climate change is an absolutely huge ...

My hon. Friend is making as powerful an argument for wetlands as our hon. Friend the Member for H...

I thank my hon. Friend, who is my near neighbour. We need to be creative, to be open to ideas and...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Sally-Ann Hart) on setting the scene so well...

I thank and congratulate Back-Bench colleagues; we have got a great deal into a short space of ti...

It is always a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. I thank the hon. Member for Ha...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. I congratulate the hon. Member for Ha...

Will the hon. Member give way?

Given the time, I will not; sorry.

We do not believe that the current ambitions to halt the...

It is an absolute pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today, Mr Gray, and a real pleasure t...

I am really grateful to hear the Minister say that. We differ on Brexit, but I think one of the s...

It will come as no surprise to the hon. Member that I am challenging how we best support our upla...

The Minister mentioned 61 risks, but does she worry, like I do, that low uptake of ELM schemes co...

It is absolutely the case that we need as many farmers as possible to take up ELM schemes, but fr...

The Minister is being very generous. It is very important that farmers are incentivised, because ...

Absolutely. There is no other industry or sector where knowledge and experience is passed down th...

The debate is about climate change, as opposed to just climate change adaptation. I appreciate th...

I think, Mr Gray, that the debate is about the role of nature in adapting to climate change. I am...

The debate is on “Climate Change and Biodiversity”, so I think we are all in order.

Jolly good. Yes, absolutely, I confirm that I speak regularly with my counterparts elsewhere in D...

I thank the Minister for her response. Clearly, Members across the House, representing all parts ...