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Lords report stage (first day). Amendment 1 agreed to on division (209 to 179). Amendment 2 agreed to on division (209 to 166). Amendment 4 agreed to on division (181 to 159). (Part 1 of 2).

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Session

2021-22

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Report stage

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Proceeding contributions

Lord Teverson | 814 cc611-2 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Teverson

1: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“Pu...

Lord Teverson | 814 cc612-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it has been two months since we debated the Bill in Committee over a period of three we...


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Baroness Boycott | 814 cc613-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am very happy to support this amendment. As the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, said, I jo...

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle | 814 cc614-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support both these amendments: Amendment 1, so ably introduced by the noble Lord, Lor...

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 814 cc615-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 1, to which I added my name. I also thank the noble Lord, Lor...

Earl of Caithness | 814 c617 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have listened carefully to the very powerful arguments that have been made. I believe...

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 814 c617 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is a curious experience to be standing up without being called.

The noble Earl...

Lord Deben | 814 cc617-8 (Link to this contribution)

I hope that your Lordships will remember the words of the Pope in Laudato Si’, when he said that ...

Lord Krebs | 814 cc618-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in supporting the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, I draw attention to a p...

Archbishop of York | 814 c619 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in the Book of Common Prayer, the Lord’s Prayer says:

“Our Father in heaven,

<...
Baroness Altmann | 814 cc619-620 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I echo the words of my noble friend Lord Caithness. The Government are to be congratula...

Lord Cormack | 814 c620 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I wish very briefly to endorse everything that my noble friend Lady Altmann said a mome...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 814 cc620-1 (Link to this contribution)

I am delighted to be back debating the Environment Bill on Report and not least to be able to do ...

Lord Deben | 814 c621 (Link to this contribution)

I think my noble friend misunderstood my point. My point was that, given the opportunity to decla...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 814 cc622-3 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my noble friend for his intervention, and I will address his question directly.

The...

Lord Cormack | 814 c623 (Link to this contribution)

Before my noble friend sits down: if the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, or anyone else for that matte...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 814 c624 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my noble friend for his intervention and his earlier comments, but the reality is that I,...

Lord Marlesford | 814 c624 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, if my noble friend is not prepared to give the very simple assurance that at Third Read...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 814 c624 (Link to this contribution)

I simply say to my noble friend that I am not in a position to accept this amendment. If the Hous...

Lord Deben | 814 c624 (Link to this contribution)

I do not want this to start off so badly, but the fact is that many of us do not want to have var...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 814 c624 (Link to this contribution)

Perhaps I have misunderstood my noble friend. If he is asking me to acknowledge, as I have done m...

Earl of Caithness | 814 c625 (Link to this contribution)

I would just like to get clarification on this. Since it is now so difficult to table an amendmen...

Baroness Young of Old Scone | 814 c625 (Link to this contribution)

Could I summarise what I think I have heard the noble Lord say?

Earl of Courtown | 814 c625 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am afraid the noble Baroness cannot summarise. The rules in the Companion are quite c...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 814 c625 (Link to this contribution)

I have been told to finish but I am not sure how; this is the first time I have been asked to fin...

Lord Teverson | 814 cc625-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in all my time in this House, this is the first time that I have got to a point where t...

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle | 814 c629 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

2: Clause 1, page 2, line 4, at end insert—...

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle | 814 cc629-631 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Amendment 2 appears in my name and those of the noble Lords, Lord Whitty, Lord Curry of...

Lord Deben | 814 cc631-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the Climate Change Committee has made it very clear that the soil is a crucial part of ...

Lord Whitty | 814 cc632-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I added my name to this amendment and I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, ...

Lord Cameron of Dillington | 814 cc633-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support this amendment very strongly. First, I declare my interests—for the whole of ...

Baroness Brown of Cambridge | 814 c634 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support this amendment very strongly. I speak as the chair of the Adaptation Committe...

Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 814 c634 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I added my name to the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, and I was pleased...

Baroness Young of Old Scone | 814 cc634-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I urge the noble Lord, Lord Randall, to be of good cheer and believe that this is the s...

Earl of Caithness | 814 cc635-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to support the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, and I am grateful ...

Earl of Devon | 814 c636 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I should note, for the record and for the whole of Report, my interest as a Devon farme...

Baroness Parminter | 814 c637 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we very much thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, for moving this amendment on soil....

Lord Khan of Burnley | 814 cc638-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, has spoken eloquently on this issue, ...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 814 c639 (Link to this contribution)

I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this important debate, and the noble Baroness,...

Earl of Devon | 814 c639 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Minister accept that under Clause 1(2) we need to set only a single metric? Is he saying...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 814 cc640-1 (Link to this contribution)

I was coming to the point made by the noble Earl. As part of the soil health measuring and monito...

Lord Krebs | 814 c641 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister very much for allowing me to intervene briefly. I want to wind back a few mo...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 814 c641 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. We will talk in detail about the target shortly—perh...

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle | 814 cc641-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I think this has been some of your Lordships’ House at its finest and I thank everyone ...

Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 814 c642 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Randall of Uxbridge

3: Clause 1, page 2, line 4, at end insert—

“...

Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 814 cc642-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Amendment 3 in my name is also in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell of Har...

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb | 814 c648 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Randall, on one of his and my pet topics. He has ...

Lord Carrington | 814 c648 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, there is very little that I can add to the speeches of the two noble Lords who have spo...

Viscount Trenchard | 814 cc648-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I spoke in favour of my noble friend Lord Randall’s similar amendment in Committee. I c...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 814 c649 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have not yet participated in the discussion of light pollution during the stages of t...

Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville | 814 cc649-650 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Randall of Uxbridge, to whi...

Lord Khan of Burnley | 814 cc650-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Randall of Uxbridge, has made important and eloquent points in rel...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 814 cc651-2 (Link to this contribution)

I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this debate and particularly the noble Lord, L...

Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 814 cc652-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I would like to thank my noble friend the Minister very much. He has gone a lot further...

Baroness Hayman of Ullock | 814 c653 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

4: Clause 2, page 2, line 24, leave out subsection...

Baroness Hayman of Ullock | 814 cc653-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 4 and speak to Amendment 12. Both are in my name and the names...

Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 814 cc656-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have tabled Amendment 54 in this group. Like my noble friend Lady Hayman, I had the p...

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 814 cc657-8 (Link to this contribution)

I support Amendments 4 and 12, and I am most grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ulloc...

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb | 814 cc658-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have been working on the issue of air pollution for more than two decades. I thank Si...

Lord Berkeley | 814 c659 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Baroness is making a very important speech; I will just add to what she has said. In ad...

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb | 814 c659 (Link to this contribution)

But he did put potted plants there; let us give him some credit.

Amendment 54 is also incre...

Lord Whitty | 814 cc659-660 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare an interest as I am still a vice-president of Environmental Protection UK, wh...

Baroness Walmsley | 814 cc660-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support Amendments 4 and 12 to which I have put my name. Before I come to that, I wil...

Duke of Montrose | 814 c661 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in the midst of all this great technical expertise, I would like to follow up one point...

Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 814 c661 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I think the later contributions have shown that it is vital, in this connection, for th...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 814 cc663-6 (Link to this contribution)

I would like to thank all noble Lords for another important debate and to reassure the House that...

Lord Lucas | 814 c666 (Link to this contribution)

Before my noble friend sits down, could he confirm that I understood him aright that the current ...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 814 c666 (Link to this contribution)

That is a really important point. In this debate and previous debates, I have said that our knowl...

Baroness Hayman of Ullock | 814 c666 (Link to this contribution)

I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate. I will be very brief because I ...

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