Environment Bill

My Lords, it is my pleasure to open the debate, especially on this group of essential amendments,...

My Lords, I have two amendments in the group. Their aim, rather like those of the noble Baroness,...

I am delighted to speak to this small group of amendments. I shall speak particularly to my Amend...

My Lords, I am delighted as always to follow the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, and well understa...

My Lords, as always, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wigley. I am speaking about ...

My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope. I rise t...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, and to thank her for...

My Lords, I will briefly speak to Amendment 76 tabled by the noble Baronesses, Lady Parminter, La...

My Lords, I note that—and am honoured to be—listed twice on the speakers’ list for both this and ...

The noble Duke, the Duke of Montrose, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-R...

My Lords, I support the Government’s approach on this. Requiring a policy statement on environmen...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe, and I agree with e...

My Lords, this is the first opportunity that I have had to speak on the Bill, since I was unable ...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendments in this group that aim to strengthen the role of envi...

My Lords, I support some of the amendments in this group in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady ...

As the noble Baroness, Lady Young of Old Scone, pointed out in her earlier speech, she has been l...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of the LGA. This is a very extensive group of...

My Lords, it has been a very interesting debate, with some excellent speeches. I hope the Ministe...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions on this important subject.

I star...

My Lords, I have received two requests to speak after the Minister, from the noble Earl, Lord Cai...

My Lords, I listened with care to what the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, said about the precautionary p...

My Lords, on the first question, I felt that I answered the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, in some detai...

My Lords, given all the respect and affection in which I hold him, I am slightly dismayed that my...

I thank my noble friend. I think she offered to submit other examples in case law, and I look for...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, even the ones who have disa...

Moved by

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

80: Clause 18, page 11, line 26, at end inse...

I beg to move.

My Lords—

I shall take that intervention as inadvertent—although the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, has...

I am not quite sure whether I am audible or not. I just want to thank the Minister for his kind r...

My Lords, we come now to the group consisting of Amendment 81A. Anyone wishing to press this to a...

Moved by

Lord Hope of Craighead

81A: Clause 19, page 11, line 31, at end insert—

My Lords, I hope I can be heard. Amendment 81A is a probing amendment, for reasons that I hope to...

My Lords, I am delighted to support Amendment 81A, which I have co-signed. I support entirely the...

My Lords, I understood that the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, had withdrawn from this debate—but ...

Thank you. There was an administrative snafu, which I understood had been sorted out. I apologise...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, and to agree with her on t...

My Lords, I will be brief. After what was a fruitcake of amendments, we are now on a fairly simpl...

My Lords, I, too, shall be quite brief. I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, f...

I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead, for his Amendment 81A. It summarises ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate. I must than...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 82. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Lord Cameron of Dillington

82: Before Clause 21, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, I know this group of amendments is unlikely to find favour with Defra. While I normally...

It is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Cameron. Like him, I am very much a “cross”...

I am delighted to support and speak to the amendments in this group. As we are considering in det...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Cameron of Dillington, introduced his amendments extremely well. T...

The noble Lord, Lord Inglewood, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Krebs.

My Lords, before I turn to the amendments in this grouping, I refer to a comment that the noble E...

My Lords, while I do not support every detail of Amendment 82 and tend to prefer Amendment 85, th...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Young of Old Scone has withdrawn, as she is listed twice on th...

A few moments ago the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, referred to this as the core amendment of the Bill....

My Lords, I am very happy to support Amendment 82. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Cameron, for deal...

My Lords, when the office of environmental protection was mooted, I hoped it would be on the same...

My Lords, there has been near unanimity in condemnation of what is currently in the schedule to d...

My Lords, I agree on the importance of this part of the Bill. Indeed, it is the only part of the ...

My Lords, I am pleased to speak from these Benches in favour of the amendments in this group and ...

My Lords, we have had an excellent debate. I feel as if I have had a master class from some very ...

I thank noble Lords for this important debate. Before I get into the points raised, I thank the n...

I have received a request to speak after the Minister from the noble Lord, Lord Teverson.

My Lords, I get the impression from that short reply that the Minister does not understand the gr...

I thank the noble Lord for this question, which relates to ministerial interference in the OEP. M...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate—this core debate as the nobl...

My Lords, we come now to the group beginning with Amendment 89. Anyone wishing to press this or a...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

89: Schedule 1, page 130, line 36, at end ins...

My Lords, I am delighted to move Amendment 89 and speak to Amendment 90. I am grateful to the nob...

My Lords, I had thought that the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, intended to speak, bu...

My Lords, I thought I understood the intention of my noble friend Lady McIntosh in these amendmen...

My Lords, mine is a very brief point which goes in the opposite direction to the noble Viscount’s...

My Lords, I was very happy to support and sign this amendment, which has been explained by the no...

My Lords, it is interesting to hear the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, introduce her...

I hope I went some way at least towards reassuring noble Lords about the robust process for appoi...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the opportunity to have this little debate and to all those who ...

My Lords, we come now to the group beginning with Amendment 92. Anyone wishing to press this or a...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

92: Schedule 1, page 132, line 41, at end ins...

My Lords, I am grateful again to have the opportunity to press and probe my noble friend further ...

My Lords, I am happy to be a co-signatory of Amendment 92, and I am pleased to support the case t...

My Lords, very briefly, the Bill does not require the Secretary of State to pay. Subsection (1) r...

My Lords, in speaking briefly in support of this group of amendments, I refer back to the budget ...

My Lords, after my remarks a moment ago on the independence of the OEP, it will come as no surpri...

The noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Do...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Cameron of Dillington.

I support ...

The noble Baroness, Lady Young of Old Scone, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Pa...

My Lords, we on these Benches support both amendments. The noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Picke...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 92 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pic...

My Lords, I very much hope so. I thank my noble friend Lady McIntosh and the noble Baroness, Lady...

I am grateful to all who have spoken, and I am particularly grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Bruc...

We come now to the group beginning with Amendment 94. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Lord Krebs

94: Schedule 1, page 134, line 3, leave out “have regard to the n...

My Lords, with the leave of the House, I will move Amendment 94 on behalf of the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, continuing the theme of great minds thinking alike, apparently the requests for a claus...

My Lords, it is a delight to follow the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering. I support the...

My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Downpatrick, and to hear from h...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe. We often agree but o...

My Lords, briefly, the Minister would be well advised to pay attention to what the noble Baroness...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 100, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh; Amend...

We appear not to have the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, so I call the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I strongly support the messages being delivered in this group of amendments. Above all,...

I call the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle.

Thank you, Deputy Chairman. My Lords, I offer support for all these amendments, but particularly ...

My Lords, I cannot help feeling that there is an air of unreality about this debate. Everyone on ...

My Lords, I have not taken part directly in these important debates around the OEP, mainly becaus...

My Lords, I start by quoting the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, who said that the OEP was “a...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, for introducing this suite of amendments—i...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions. I will begin by addressing the amendments tabled by ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their excellent contributions to this debate; it is the sec...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 95. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

95: Clause 22, page 13, line 25, at end inse...

Amendment 95 creates a duty for the OEP to set out in its strategy how it intends to interact wit...

My Lords, Amendment 96 in my name has nothing to do with Amendment 95 but, for the convenience of...

My Lords, in addressing the amendment put forward by my noble friend the Minister, the Committee ...

My Lords, I will make a couple of brief points in relation to Amendment 96 in the name of the nob...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Krebs. As always, his contributio...

My Lords, the Minister invited me to welcome government amendment 95, which of course I do and I ...

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

I want to...

I shall speak to government Amendment 95 and Amendment 96 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Luc...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions.

Although I welcome the commitment to transpare...

I have had one request to speak after the Minister, from the noble Lord, Lord Lucas.

My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend for his explanation of the reasons why he cannot ...

I simply say that I very strongly agree, and that will remain a focus of the Government.

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 97. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

97: Clause 22, page 13, line 32, at end insert—