Water Bill

My Lords, I rise to support this amendment. I believe that the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, has under...

My Lords, the purpose of Amendment 109 is to ensure that, in discharging its primary duty to prot...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Redesdale, for his support and agree with him that I was p...

Moved by

Lord Redesdale

110: Clause 22, page 63, line 20, after “resilience” insert “...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 111 and 112. I want also to express support for Amendm...

My Lords, I am always impressed by the fervency with which my noble friend Lord Redesdale promote...

My Lords, at Second Reading I said I was green with envy that the environmental regulators will n...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Redesdale for raising this issue yet again. He has done so...

My Lords, I have tabled an amendment in this group which attempts to deal in a slightly different...

My Lords, I turn first to Amendments 110 to 112, in the name of my noble friend Lord Redesdale. I...

My Lords, yet again I am not disappointed in my expectation that I will not get anything out of t...

Moved by

Lord Oxburgh

112A:Clause 22, page 63, line 33, at end insert—

“( ) In ...

My Lords, I add my thanks to the Minister for his courteous and helpful replies to questions rais...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, for his probing amendment. My Amendment 133, also...

My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister and the department for the very helpful briefing notes we ha...

My Lords, when preparing to speak to this amendment, I was going to support the amendment of the ...

My Lords, I am sure that the Minister will help my noble friend Lord Cathcart, but the short answ...

I thank my noble friend for correcting my wrong conclusion that the power lies with Ofwat. I shou...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, and my noble friend Lady Parminter for tabling th...

I thank all noble Lords who have participated in what has been a very useful discussion about met...

As the noble Lord is aware, the emphasis at the moment is on water-stressed areas, which are more...

That is extremely useful. If the Government are prepared to move at all on this area, it might be...

We cannot be having that. On behalf of my noble friend Lord de Mauley, I can say that we would be...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.