Environment Bill

My Lords, in moving Amendment 1, I will speak also to Amendments 3, 54 and 74 in my name. The Env...

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

My Lords, I have set myself the target for Committee not to make the mistakes of other Committee ...

My Lords, I, too, support the amendments of my noble friend Lord Lindsay and the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Cormack. I am speaking in support of Am...

My Lords, I rise to support my noble friend Lord Lindsay’s amendments. They help to clarify the p...

My Lords, I feel it is only fair to warn your Lordships that you will see quite a lot of the two ...

I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness. I welcome this group of amendments, which are excell...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. I will speak to Amendment 1 in the n...

My Lords, I too support the noble Earl, Lord Lindsay, in his amendment. I may be challenging the ...

It is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Young. I want to speak to and oppose Amend...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to find myself at this place in the debate and to respond to the noble...

My Lords, I thank the noble Earl, Lord Lindsay, and my noble friend Lord Teverson, for their amen...

My Lords, we have had an excellent start to our debates and consideration of the Bill, which help...

I thank my noble friend Lord Lindsay for beginning this Committee. I note the support for his ame...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his thoughtful response, to which I will give careful...

My Lords, we now come to the group consisting of Amendment 4. Anyone wishing to press this amendm...

Moved by

The Duke of Wellington

4: Clause 1, page 1, line 15, at end insert “, in par...

My Lords, this amendment in my name—and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, for adding her ...

My Lords, I am delighted to support the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington, in his amendment. On ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 4, so ably moved by the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington, ...

My Lords, I support the sentiment of Amendment 4 in the name of the noble Duke, the Duke of Welli...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Young of Old Scone, is right to talk about the Thames. I remem...

My Lords, I think we can count that as the best joke of the Environment Bill Committee so far, so...

My Lords, my noble friend the late Lord Ridley of Liddesdale would be as disappointed as I am tha...

My Lords, I take everybody’s point about the fact that this amendment does not quite measure up t...

My Lords, I start by declaring my interest as in the register, particularly in relation to this a...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, not down the road of the Great Stink but certa...

My Lords, I strongly support what the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington, has said and many impor...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to be speaking to this amendment moved by the noble Duke, the Duke of ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington, for his amendment and his speech today....

I thank the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington, for tabling Amendment 4. I note the support that ...

My Lords, I am grateful to those noble Lords who have participated in this short debate. Of cours...

We come now to the group of amendments headed by Amendment 5. Anyone wishing to press that amendm...

Moved by

Lord Blencathra

5: Clause 1, page 1, line 16, leave out paragraph (c) and in...

My Lords, I declare my environmental interests as on the register. This afternoon I will, if I ma...

My Lords, we have just heard from the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, with whom I agree in every res...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Rooker. Words matter; so too does the m...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead, an...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, and my noble friend Lord Cormack that legisla...

My Lords, I am delighted to participate in this debate. I congratulate my noble friend Lord Blenc...

My Lords, I listened to the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, with a degree of sympathy for what he is...

My Lords, I was much elated to read my noble friend Lord Blencathra’s amendments. I completely ag...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to take part in this debate, and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bl...

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s Amendment 5, to which I added my name. It is always good to...

My Lords, one could argue that what is good enough for Sir David Attenborough is good enough for ...

My Lords, this has certainly been an interesting discussion around the proposal of the noble Lord...

I thank my noble friend Lord Blencathra for his amendments. It is a pleasure to follow the though...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken—

The noble Earl, Lord Caithness, has indicated that he wishes to speak.

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for giving a definition. He then said it was going to ...

I am not sure it is necessary to add the definition to the Bill itself, but I will certainly cons...

My apologies, Lord Deputy Chairman; I did not realise you would be calling the noble Earl, Lord C...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 6. Anyone wishing to press this or anything els...

Moved by

Lord Teverson

6: Clause 1, page 1, line 16, leave out paragraph (c) and inse...

My Lords, I welcome the fact that in this Bill the Government are committed to targets on biodive...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 10. I am grateful to my noble friends Lord Carrington and ...

My Lords, I have two amendments in this group. The later one, Amendment 31, concerns the health o...

My Lords, this group of amendments is like some sort of dream list that any environment Bill wort...

My Lords, it is difficult to speak to an amendment that has not yet been spoken to by its propose...

I welcome this small group of amendments. I will speak in particular to Amendment 6 in the name o...

My Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 11 in this group, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Be...

My Lords, I rise with a very long list of amendments to speak to, and I shall begin by very brief...

My Lords, I see this as a key grouping and I intend to speak to Amendment 10, moved so ably by my...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Taylor. I put my name on this group only ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, and the noble Baroness want to give the Secretary of Sta...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, on his amendment, which I support. The ma...

My Lords, I wish principally to support Amendments 12 and 31, in the name of my noble and right r...

My Lords, I declare my interests as chairman of the Woodland Trust—I thank the noble and learned ...

My Lords, I had put myself down to speak in this group to support the noble and right reverend Lo...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington, and so many other en...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to Amendment 31 standing in the name of the ...

My Lords, I would like to speak in favour of Amendment 10 in the names of the noble Lords, Lord R...

My Lords, I shall speak in favour of Amendment 10, to which I have added my name, and I support o...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, for introducing this important debate and all no...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions, and I would like to clarify that the Bill gives us t...

I have received one request to speak after the Minister. I call the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay o...

My Lords, I would be most grateful if the Minister could tell us what financial assessment has be...

I thank the noble Baroness for her question. On the first point about the cost assessments in rel...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken favourably on Amendment 6 about the maritime si...

Could I suggest a five-minute adjournment while we just look for the Minister?

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We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 8. Anyone wishing to press this or anything els...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Needham Market

8: Clause 1, page 2, line 1, at end insert—...

One of the themes that has run through the debates that we have had so far today is the extent to...

My Lords, it does not seem that long ago that we discussed these types of issues on the Agricultu...

My Lords, my two amendments in this group are Amendments 9 and 57. Amendment 9 adds “connecting p...

I call the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw.

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We will return to the noble Lord later. We now move to the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor ...

I rise to speak to Amendments 8 and 56, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Scott of Needham ...

My Lords, I think that farmers and landowners welcome the public’s enjoyment of and responsible a...

I call the noble Baroness, Lady Quin. She is not here, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Randall of ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Trenchard. I agree with nearly everythi...

My Lords, as I listened to the noble Lord, Lord Randall, I could not make up my mind—I do not thi...

After the noble Earl, Lord Devon, I will call the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw.

My Lords, noting my interests previously declared, I am a passionate believer in better access to...

My Lords, I start with a short explanation of the reason for Amendment 58. The Natural Environmen...

My Lords, it was an absolute delight to listen to the excellent speech from the noble Earl, Lord ...

My Lords, as this is my first intervention in Committee, and for the purposes of all the stages o...

I put my name to Amendment 8, and it is perhaps worth reminding ourselves what that says given th...

My Lords, this has been an extremely interesting debate on a very important issue. I will concent...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions and agree that the Covid pandemic has underlined the ...

My Lords, I have had three requests to speak after the Minister, so we will take them in turn for...

I am most grateful for the opportunity to come in after the Minister. I wish to support the noble...

The Minister will respond to the first part of the question put by the noble Viscount, Lord Bridg...

My Lords, I will try to get this issue dealt with.

The time for the noble Lord to do that may be tight but let us try. The Minister will