Environment Bill

My Lords, nearly half our species—our birds, our bees, our wild flowers—are in decline. Yet we re...

My Lords, I declare my interests as a farmer/landowner and as chair of UKCEH research.

This...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for setting out this important Bill. I am grateful too...

I declare my interest as chairman of the advisory board of Weber Shandwick UK.

The Bill com...

My Lords, like all noble Lords, I welcome this Bill and congratulate the Minister on his passion ...

My Lords, it is a real honour to speak in this debate and share in the passion and expertise of t...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill and declare my family interest as a livestock farmer and other inter...

My Lords, I declare my interest as chairman of the Woodland Trust and my involvement in a range o...

My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partner...

My Lords, I am delighted to have the opportunity to debate this important Bill, and in doing so d...

My Lords, my Twitter bio starts:

“Hates waste of all kind”,

and so I do. Whether time...

The noble Baroness, Lady Miller, has withdrawn, so I now call the noble Lord, Lord Trees.

3...

My Lords, I very much welcome the Bill. I welcome the introduction of an office for environmental...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the Green Party since 1988. Our manifestos since t...

My Lords, I declare my environmental and conservation interests as set out in the register. It is...

[Inaudible]—it has been a long time getting here and we should all welcome it. That is not to say...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Whitty. He has raised some of th...

My Lords, the Bill is urgent and long delayed, so we must not waste time deliberating on it at le...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the GWCT and the NFU. I will highlight two issues ...

Many noble Lords, including my noble friends Lord Cameron of Dillington and Lady Boycott, have al...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, who raised important issues. I ...

My Lords, I declare my environmental interests as set out in the register. I begin by extending a...

My Lords, the Minister made the point about the magnitude and gravity of the Bill and, in my view...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill’s quest to ensure that our companies use resources sustainably and l...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for his introduction to this already impr...

My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register, in particular my involvement with the Bio...

My Lords, this Bill is both welcomed and long overdue. It could give us the basis for reversing d...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association and my hu...

My Lords, as has become clear from the debates and amendments in the other place, and as is refle...

My Lords, I welcome the Environment Bill, which aims to address one of the greatest policy challe...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for introducing this long-awaited and largely welc...

My Lords, with this Bill I feel that we are on round two: we have had the Agriculture Bill, and m...

My Lords, I start by declaring my interests as a farmer in south-west Scotland with forestry inte...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill and congratulate my noble friend the Minister on his personal commit...

My Lords, I intend to confine myself to governance issues. If the Bill is left as it is, it will ...

My Lords, I declare my farming and land-owning interests as set out in the register. I welcome th...

My Lords, I begin by declaring my interest as the owner of a smallholding with a few sheep and po...

My Lords, I remind the House first of my interests as declared in the register.

The Bill is...

My Lords, I should first declare an interest in that I am the ex-president of the Arboricultural ...

My Lords, first, I declare my interest in the register as a Suffolk farmer.

This Bill has h...

My Lords, an independent review of the economics of biodiversity, produced by Professor Sir Parth...

I call the noble Lord, Lord Sheikh.

Lord Sheikh, you need to unmute.

I regret that we are having connection problems with the noble Lord, Lord Sheikh, so we move to t...

My Lords, the stated purpose of the Environment Bill is to improve the natural environment and th...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb has already set out the temporal position of ...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, made reference to Lord Montrose. He is in fact the Du...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a landowner, a passionate conservationist and the president of...

My Lords, this has been an extraordinary, wide-ranging and fascinating debate, and it is a pleasu...

My Lords, as industrialisation in the 19th century increasingly damaged the environment, a few pe...

My Lords, I warmly welcome the opportunity to take part in this debate in support of restoring ou...

My Lords, I have not been in the House in person since the first week of February. Sitting on the...

I am sure the House would wish me to express thanks and best wishes to the right reverend Prelate...

My Lords, I am delighted to speak in this debate but, more especially, to follow the right revere...

My Lords, I declare my interests as in the register. I also add my appreciation of the speech of ...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow my noble friend the Duke of Wellington in giving support to hi...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, and I pay tribute to the right...

My Lords, only a few days ago, I was delighted to hear a speech given by my right honourable frie...

The noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull, has withdrawn, and I call the noble Lord, Lord Duncan of Springban...

I thank the noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull, for withdrawing and allowing me to speak a little earlier....

My Lords, I pay tribute to the speech that the noble Lord, Lord Duncan of Springbank, has just ma...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill, as many other noble Lords have done, but it clearly needs quite a l...

The noble Lord, Lord Curry of Kirkharle, and the noble Baroness, Lady Fookes, have withdrawn. I c...

My Lords, as we have heard throughout this thoughtful debate, this is an unprecedentedly signific...

My Lords, my interests are in the register; my family’s interests as farmers, landowners and grow...

My Lords, I am the tail-ender and I hope to bat effectively. It is imperative that we redefine ou...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to be taking part in this Second Reading at last. I declare my interes...

My Lords, I refer to my interests at Rothamsted and in the South Downs National Park, as set out ...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions to this wide-ranging debate. I pay tribute to the rig...