Information since 24 May 2025, 12:25 p.m.
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25 Jun 2025, 6:52 p.m. - House of Lords "soil health in the environment Bill, now act, when the noble Earl was indeed acting to push his own " Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green Party) - View Video - View Transcript |
13 Jun 2025, 1:42 p.m. - House of Lords "think it was in a different meeting, the noble Lady Baroness Parminter pointed out to me that apparently the Environment Bill as it went to this House, the Government at the " Baroness Coffey (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
15 Sep 2025, 9:27 p.m. - House of Lords "Environment Bill don't worry about " Baroness Young of Old Scone (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
15 Sep 2025, 11:32 p.m. - House of Lords "Environment Bill when it was going through. We were setting up a system " Lord Lucas (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
11 Sep 2025, 12:47 p.m. - House of Lords "them in this House. We come to it every time as an Environment Bill. And it is a really, not just from an " Baroness Parminter (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
Parliamentary Debates |
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Planning and Infrastructure Bill
229 speeches (67,513 words) Committee stage Monday 15th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) This isn’t an environment Bill; it’s a planning Bill”. - Link to Speech 2: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) intention towards the private schemes—after all, the Minister and I were both involved in the Environment Bill - Link to Speech |
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
192 speeches (54,040 words) Committee stage Thursday 11th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: None We come to them every time there is an environment Bill. - Link to Speech |
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
129 speeches (53,468 words) 2nd reading Wednesday 25th June 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) thinking back to when the noble Earl and I were working to get a focus on soil health in the Environment Bill - Link to Speech |
Environmental Targets (Public Authorities) Bill [HL]
41 speeches (12,239 words) Committee stage Friday 13th June 2025 - Lords Chamber Northern Ireland Office Mentions: 1: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, pointed out to me, I think in a different meeting, that when the Environment Bill - Link to Speech |
Select Committee Documents |
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Tuesday 8th July 2025
Written Evidence - Bright Blue PWC0007 - Preventing waste and enabling a circular economy Preventing waste and enabling a circular economy - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Found: The UK Government proposes to introduce a DRS with a 15p charge, as outlined in the current Environment Bill |
Friday 13th June 2025
Written Evidence - Anti-Slavery FLS0061 - Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains - Human Rights (Joint Committee) Found: parliamentary term: the Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Right and Environment) Bill |
Friday 13th June 2025
Written Evidence - Corporate Justice Coalition FLS0041 - Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains - Human Rights (Joint Committee) Found: Hornsey introduced the “Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill |
Written Answers |
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Business: Environment Protection and Human Rights
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South and Walkden) Thursday 4th September 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a Business Human Rights and Environment Bill. Answered by Douglas Alexander - Secretary of State for Scotland The UK has a range of measures in place to promote responsible business conduct across the economy. In the Trade Strategy, the Government launched a review into the UK’s approach to responsible business conduct, focused on tackling human rights and labour abuses, modern slavery, and environmental harms in global supply chains.
The review will be a neutral, objective appraisal of policy, led by departmental officials. It will consider the effectiveness of the UK’s current regime and the merits of alternative means of supporting responsible business practices. |
Parliamentary Research |
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Packaging extended producer responsibility - CBP-10352
Oct. 07 2025 Found: Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024v (PDF), p9-10 14 Environment Bill |
Bill Documents |
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Jun. 20 2025
Crime and Policing Bill: Delegated Powers Memorandum Crime and Policing Bill 2024-26 Delegated Powers Memorandum Found: recommendation of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Report Committee in its report on the Environment Bill |
APPG Publications |
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Net Zero APPG Document: NZ APPG Roadmap Report 2021 Found: bank a net zero mandate; and Use post-2020 UK carbon pricing architecture and forthcoming Environment Bill |
Microplastics APPG Document: 2021 Report - ‘Microplastic Policies for the Government’ Found: One of these opportunities was the recent Environment Bill. |
Waterways APPG Document: APPGW March 2021 minutes Found: British Canoeing has been asking MPs to lend their support to the amendments to the Environment Bill |
Dark Skies APPG Document: AGM 2021 Found: · Use of the Environment Bill as a platform to advocate for dark skies · Look |
Antimicrobial Resistance APPG Document: Antibiotic residues in sewage and agricultural run-off: can we determine safe thresholds to combat deadly superbugs? Found: recommendations from the UK’s five-year national action plan on AMR (see pp44-48) made it into the Environment Bill |
Tidy Britain APPG Document: Tidy Britain APPG (Plastic Pollution) Q&A - Dec 2020 Found: scheme for England from 2023 (Scotland will have theirs a year earlier in 2022), and once the Environment Bill |
Dark Skies APPG Document: Ten Dark Sky Policies for the Government Found: Environment Agency or the new Office for Environmental Protection which will be established by the Environment Bill |
Microplastics APPG Document: Download the Minutes from 11 November 2020 Found: looking at parliamentary solutions to the plastics problem, and had been working to influence the Environment Bill |
Tidy Britain APPG Document: Tidy Britain APPG (Plastic Pollution) Minutes - Nov 2020 Found: single use plastic ban to include plastic plates and cutlery, as well as using the powers of the Environment Bill |
Animal Welfare APPG Document: The Future for Small Abattoirs in the UK Found: farmers in England and replace them with a new system of public money for public goods ●● The Environment Bill |
United Nations Global Goals APPG Document: UK Voluntary National Review 2019 Found: accelerate reforestation and unlock major economic and environmental benefits; • bringing forward an Environment Bill |
Department Publications - Transparency |
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Wednesday 25th June 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: List of statistics with pre-release access Document: (ODS) Found: . • Environment Bill/Act Policy Advisors x 5. • ELM Policy Advisors x 2. • FFCP Policy Engagement and |
Scottish Cross Party Group Publications |
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Minute of the Meeting of 7 May 2025
(PDF) Source Page: Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Wood Panel Industry Published: 7th May 2025 Found: , a change in forestry standard and the introduction of the Natural Environment Bill |
Scottish Government Publications |
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Wednesday 8th October 2025
Constitution Directorate Source Page: A Fresh Start with Independence Document: A Fresh Start with Independence (PDF) Found: zero nation by 2045, have proposed a framework for statutory nature targets in the Natural Environment Bill |
Friday 3rd October 2025
Environment and Forestry Directorate Source Page: Strategic Deer Management Board minutes: June 2025 Document: Strategic Deer Management Board minutes: June 2025 (webpage) Found: Wilson provided an update on the progress of the Deer Management Provisions within the Natural Environment Bill |
Wednesday 24th September 2025
Environment and Forestry Directorate Source Page: Correspondence regarding Galloway and Ayrshire National Park: EIR release Document: EIR 202500469060 - Information released - Annex A and B (PDF) Found: the pre-Cabinet consideration process 3) Briefing on stakeholder responses to the Natural Environment Bill |
Monday 22nd September 2025
Source Page: Climate Change Plan Monitoring Report: EIR release Document: FOI 202500467217 - Information Released - Annex (PDF) Found: We have introduced a Natural Environment Bill which will support our ambition to restore biodiversity |
Thursday 11th September 2025
Environment and Forestry Directorate Source Page: Communications relating to the reintroduction of lynx in Scotland: EIR relase Document: EIR 202500461806 - Information Released - Annex (PDF) Found: Further to this, a new Natural Environment Bill will put in place statutory targets to restore and protect |
Tuesday 9th September 2025
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate Source Page: Scottish Animal Welfare Commission minutes: 14 August 2025 Document: Scottish Animal Welfare Commission minutes: 14 August 2025 (webpage) Found: translocations.An update on SG wildlife management work was also delivered, including on the Natural Environment Bill |
Friday 29th August 2025
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate Source Page: Scotland's Land Use Strategy Annual Progress Report – 2024/2025 Document: Scotland’s Land Use Strategy: Annual Progress Report – 2024/2025 (PDF) Found: Statutory targets for nature will be included in a new Natural Environment Bill which introduced in |
Wednesday 20th August 2025
Marine Directorate Source Page: Areas of Research Interest: Marine & Freshwater Document: Marine Directorate: Areas of Research Interest: Marine & Freshwater (PDF) Found: • Natural Environment Bill : Proposed legislation including requirements for biodiversity improvement |
Wednesday 13th August 2025
Marine Directorate Source Page: Scottish seabird conservation action plan Document: The Scottish Seabird Conservation Action Plan (PDF) Found: Strategy and proposals to establish statutory targets for nature restoration through a Natural Environment Bill |
Tuesday 29th July 2025
Environment and Forestry Directorate Source Page: Deer Management Strategic Board minutes: April 2025 Document: Deer Management Strategic Board minutes: April 2025 (webpage) Found: the Scottish Government’s deer management proposals which have been included in the Natural Environment Bill |
Thursday 3rd July 2025
Environment and Forestry Directorate Source Page: SEA for the Environment Strategy - Environmental Report Document: Title (PDF) Found: restoration targets which will be set out in SEA for the Environment Strategy 58 the new Natural Environment Bill |
Thursday 3rd July 2025
Environment and Forestry Directorate Source Page: The Draft Environment Strategy Document: The Environment Strategy for Scotland Consultation Draft (PDF) Found: • Statutory nature restoration targets, to be set out in the Natural Environment Bill, which will |
Thursday 3rd July 2025
Environment and Forestry Directorate Source Page: Consultation on the draft Environment Strategy Document: Environment Strategy - research report for publication - Transformative Changes for Sustainability (PDF) Found: Our forthcoming Natural Environment Bill will introduce new statutory targets for restoring nature in |
Thursday 3rd July 2025
Environment and Forestry Directorate Source Page: Consultation on the draft Environment Strategy Document: Consultation on the draft Environment Strategy (webpage) Found: Our forthcoming Natural Environment Bill will introduce new statutory targets for restoring nature in |
Friday 27th June 2025
Environment and Forestry Directorate Source Page: Deer Management Strategic Board minutes: December 2024 Document: Deer Management Strategic Board minutes: December 2024 (webpage) Found: of the Scottish Government’s deer management policies which will be included in the Natural Environment Bill |
Thursday 12th June 2025
Environment and Forestry Directorate Source Page: Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill - Deer Management Final Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment Document: The Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill – Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA) – Part 4 – Deer Management (PDF) Found: Workforce and Fair Work It is unlikely that Part 4 of the Natural Environment Bill will impact on Fair |
Friday 30th May 2025
Environment and Forestry Directorate Marine Directorate Source Page: Scottish Biodiversity Strategy. Report to Parliament: 2020-2024 Document: Scottish Biodiversity Strategy Report to Parliament 2020-2024 (PDF) Found: Financial Disclosures will help us inform and learn from international best practice. 9.7 Natural Environment Bill |
Thursday 29th May 2025
Environment and Forestry Directorate Source Page: A report on the proposal for a National Park in Southwest Scotland Document: A report on the proposal for a National Park in Southwest Scotland (PDF) Found: As the Scottish Government’s policy memorandum to the Natural Environment Bill notes: “Scotland’s National |
Scottish Written Answers |
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S6W-39055
Asked by: Tuesday 22nd July 2025 Question To ask the Scottish Government how it supports deer management in (a) lowland and (b) semi-rural areas. Answered by Fairlie, Jim - Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity Good deer management is about achieving balance, what that looks like in different local areas will vary depending on the immediate environment and the impact deer may be having. That is why we have introduced new purposes for deer management in our Natural Environment Bill. We recognise, however, that we need to use both regulation and incentive to support our deer management aims. Three pilot incentive schemes led by NatureScot and the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) ran in 2024/25 to financially support deer managers to control numbers of deer in specific parts of Scotland in response to the climate and nature emergencies. Pilot schemes are expected to return in these areas for the 2025/26 season as well as expand to further locales including within Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. In addition to this, in the lowlands specifically we are supporting deer management through the Low Ground Venison Supply Chain Project which will explore ways to help low ground deer managers improve the infrastructure for handling and chilling venison carcasses and increase throughput. 13 applicants have been issued grant funding to date. As set out in our 2025-26 Programme for Government, we are committed to working with stakeholders on “the development of local pilot projects on deer management programmes, including an implementation plan and funding models deer management”. |
Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe) |
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Ecocide (Scotland) Bill
Thursday 18th September 2025 The Ecocide (Scotland) Bill was introduced in the Scottish Parliament by Monica Lennon MSP on 29 May 2025. This Member's Bill seeks to create a criminal offence of ecocide. View source webpage Found: Ecocide was discussed in the UK Parliament in 2021 in the context of amendments to the UK Environment Bill |
Scottish Parliamentary Debates |
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Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
130 speeches (97,215 words) Wednesday 21st May 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: Carson, Finlay (Con - Galloway and West Dumfries) We are looking at a natural environment bill that will deliver biodiversity targets. - Link to Speech |
Welsh Committee Publications |
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PDF - Explanatory Memorandum Inquiry: Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill Found: These benefits, although broader than direct monetisable figures, 118 Environment Bill Impact Assessment.pdf |
Welsh Government Publications |
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Monday 2nd June 2025
Source Page: Environmental principles, governance and biodiversity targets: report by the Young Foundation Document: Environmental principles, governance and biodiversity targets: report by the Young Foundation (PDF) Found: bodies, and the design and implementation of biodiversity targets are enacted 91 DEFRA (2019), Environment Bill |
Welsh Senedd Debates |
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2. Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
None speech (None words) Tuesday 15th July 2025 - None |
3. Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Water Quality in Wales
None speech (None words) Tuesday 10th June 2025 - None |
Welsh Senedd Speeches |
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