Environment Bill

We have two withdrawals from this group: the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington, and the noble Lo...

My Lords, I take the opportunity given by my noble friend’s amendments to probe the Minister on g...

My Lords, I start by repeating something I said in the first day of Committee. This is a hangover...

I am delighted to follow my noble friend. Like him, I think it unfortunate that we have not heard...

My Lords, I speak to Amendments 28 and 30, and express my support for all amendments in this grou...

My Lords, this is my first amendment, too, in the Environment Bill, and I also welcome it.

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My Lords, as this is my first intervention at this stage in the Bill, I draw attention to my vice...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, and I identify very much with his...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, on her amendments, which I am afraid ...

As always, it is a great pleasure to follow my friend the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoo...

My Lords, I will be brief, particularly as I understand that the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, wi...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 13 and 30 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, ...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions, and I hope they were reassured by my comments on Mon...

My Lords, I have requests to speak after the Minister from three noble Lords, the noble Baronesse...

I thank noble Lords who made kind comments about my knowledge of plastic. I do not in any sense p...

I thank the noble Baroness for her comments, and I echo those of many others. She is a person of ...

My Lords, in his initial answer to the various amendments, the Minister said that it was the Gove...

My Lords, one of our priority areas for targets is waste, so we are committed to introducing at l...

My Lords, in his answer to the debate on this group of amendments, the Minister said that the Gov...

I thank the noble Baroness for that final comment. As I have said many times, extended producer r...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. I am grateful to the Minist...

My Lords, we come now to the group beginning with Amendment 15. Anyone wishing to press this or a...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

15: Clause 1, page 2, line 5, at end insert—

“(c) the reaso...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 15. The targets the Government intend to set will impose substa...

My Lords I shall speak chiefly to Amendments 16 and 18 in my name. I also want briefly to support...

My Lords, I am speaking to Amendment 43 in the name of my noble friend Lady Jones, which is also ...

My Lords, I assure the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock, that it has been extremely useful t...

My Lords, I wish briefly to speak on the two principal targets of these amendments—first about re...

My Lords, I support Amendment 43, which places a statutory duty on the Secretary of State to meet...

My Lords, I wish to speak in support of Amendment 43 on the need for binding interim targets. I a...

My Lords, I always feel rather humbled when I follow such eminent noble Lords, particularly the n...

My Lords, I thank those who have participated so far in this short debate on targets. Like other ...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions and welcome their engagement with this area of the Bi...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the support that I have received from my noble friend Lord Caith...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 17. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

17: Clause 1, page 2, line 7, at end insert—

“(5A) Regulati...

When the Government come to review the performance against targets, I very much hope that they wi...

My Lords, the amendment in my name suggests that the Government should be talking to other bits o...

My Lords, I have one amendment in this grouping, Amendment 34. I am grateful for the support of t...

My Lords, I declare my interests as a farmer with forestry and renewable energy interests, chairm...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow that last contribution, because important points arise in the ...

My Lords, I support the comments of my noble friend Lord Lucas in moving the amendment. I also li...

My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble Earl, Lord Caithness, who is dedicate...

First, I wish your Lordships a happy Brexit day. I am sure that, like me, you all have happy memo...

Hear, hear.

There are a couple in. Indeed, one of the reasons why so many millions voted to leave the EU—not ...

My Lords, in following the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, I should briefly offer a defence ...

My Lords, I will be brief. It is a delight to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Ca...

My Lords, I wish to speak in support of the amendment, Amendment 17, in the name of the noble Lor...

It is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Krebs. I loved that story about the blue bu...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott. I am going to speak about ...

My Lords, this is an important group of amendments about targets. Without ambitious targets being...

My Lords, I am speaking to Amendment 34, to which I have added my name, and all the other amendme...

I thank all noble Lords for their contributions. I hope it will reassure them to know that target...

I have received requests to speak after the Minister from the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, and the nob...

My Lords, may I press the Minister a bit further on the local nature of pollution, particularly a...

I thank the noble Lord for his question. In addition to the answer I gave the noble Lord, Lord Kr...

My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for the assurance that he is working well with Minis...

I thank the noble Baroness for her question. This is relevant where the contaminant or the issue ...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the support I have received from my noble friend Lord Caithness,...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 20. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab)

20: Clause 2, page 2, line 21, leave out sub...

My Lords, In moving Amendment 20 I shall also speak to Amendment 49, both in the name of my noble...

My Lords, I very much welcome the appearance of Clause 2 in this Bill, but it would be seriously ...

My Lords, I am delighted to see all these amendments and I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady ...

My Lords, I support the intention behind all the amendments in this group today. I agree with the...

My Lords, I am delighted to have the opportunity to support this group of amendments, because thi...

The noble Earl, Lord Caithness, will not be taking part in the debate, so I will move straight on...

My Lords, I have found this a fascinating debate. I put my name to Amendment 49, but I support th...

My Lords, I added my name to Amendments 20 and 49, but I support the general thrust of all the am...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak after the noble Lord, Lord Randall of Uxbridge. I think the l...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for tabling Amendment 20 which triggers other i...

My Lords, I am just popping up, as one does in Committee, to add my support to Amendment 20 and t...

My Lords, I have added my name to two amendments in this group, Amendments 20 and 49. These amend...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a sufferer from asthma. I add my congratulations and thanks to...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions on this important subject. I start by saying, as a nu...

I have received requests to speak from the noble Baroness, Lady Sheehan, and the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, I thank the Government Whips’ Office and the usual channels for sorting out the inadver...

I tried to explain our approach to air quality monitoring in response to the noble Lord, Lord Whi...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response to this important debate. When I spoke to my Amen...

I apologise for not addressing that. Yes, I am very happy to meet. We will be in touch after the ...

My Lords, this has been a really important and interesting debate, and I thank all noble Lords fo...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 22. Anyone wishing to press this, or anything e...

Moved by

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

22: After Clause 2, insert the following new...

I rise to move government Amendment 22, and to speak to the government amendments in my name grou...

Moved by

Lord Chidgey

23: After subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) In the range of sp...

My Lords, allow me first to declare my interests—first, as vice-chair of the All-Party Chalk Stre...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 24 in my name, and I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord,...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Randall of Uxbridge, and to comme...

My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle. She and her colle...

My Lords, I agree with the earlier speakers that this part of the Bill needs to be strengthened. ...

I am delighted to follow my noble friend Lord Caithness. I congratulate my noble friend the Minis...

My Lords, I restate my interests: I chair the Cawood group, which carries out analytical testing ...

My Lords, there was much wrangling over the “state of nature” amendment in the other place. Of co...

The noble Earl, Lord Lytton, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Earl, Lord Devon.

My Lords, I rise to consider, as a number of other noble Lords have, the definition of species ab...

My Lords, I rise—metaphorically—to support Amendment 25. My support of this amendment is similar ...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 24, along with the noble Lord, Lord Randall of Uxbrid...

My Lords, the Hybrid Sitting of the Committee will now resume. I ask Members to respect social di...

I much appreciated and enjoyed the previous speeches and I think we have made a very good case fo...

My Lords, I thank the Minister, who is now in his place, for his introduction of the Government’s...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction and all noble Lords who have spoken so passio...

I thank the noble Baroness, and my noble friend Lord Randall of Uxbridge, for tabling these amend...

My Lords, I have received requests to speak after the Minister from the noble Lord, Lord Young of...

My Lords, I apologise for using this vehicle to make a contribution; I had intended to put my nam...

Can the noble Lord, Lord Young, please get to his question for elucidation?

I will do in a minute. I just want to make this point. Surely the fact is that we have changed fa...

I certainly do. I am brimming with confidence, but we have more to do.

My Lords, I am sorry that I was unable to be present at Second Reading. I thank the noble Lord, L...

On the second point, yes, when it comes to the individual steps that would be taken by the Govern...

May I remind noble Lords that questions after the Minister are short questions for elucidation.