Environment Bill

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

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

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

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

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

The noble Earl...

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

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

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

“Our Father in heaven,

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

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

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

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

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

The...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moved by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moved by

Lord Randall of Uxbridge

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

“...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amendment 54 is also incre...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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