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Friday 10th May 2024 Baroness Young of Hornsey (Crossbench - Life peer) Legislation - Main Chamber Subject: Commercial Orangisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill - second reading Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill [HL] 2023-24 View calendar |
Parliamentary Debates |
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Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2024
11 speeches (4,067 words) Monday 15th April 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) Back in 2021, when the Government stripped out the last of our amendments on stopping sewage in the Environment - Link to Speech |
Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) Bill
117 speeches (23,029 words) Friday 22nd March 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Transport Mentions: 1: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) We need this robust action for the sake of our health and children.Both in this Chamber and on the Environment - Link to Speech |
Pollution in Rivers and Regulation of Private Water Companies
35 speeches (18,071 words) Thursday 29th February 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mentions: 1: Baroness Harris of Richmond (LD - Life peer) The Liberal Democrats put down an amendment to the Environment Bill that would have placed a legal duty - Link to Speech |
Water and Sewage Companies: Directors’ Remuneration
19 speeches (7,319 words) Thursday 22nd February 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mentions: 1: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) pleasant.Shortly after I arrived in the House, having been elected, I found myself listening to debates on the Environment - Link to Speech |
Water Companies: Executive Bonuses
112 speeches (20,665 words) Tuesday 5th December 2023 - Commons Chamber Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mentions: 1: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) The Minister knows perfectly well that we opposed some of these measures during the passage of the Environment - Link to Speech 2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) Government investment and attention to help clean up that pollution.The Liberal Democrat amendment to the Environment - Link to Speech |
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Friday 8th December 2023
Report - 3rd Report - National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) Bill Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill Arbitration Bill [HL] and 14 Private Members’ Bills Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee Found: Information (Ethnicity) Bill [HL] Commercial Organisation and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment |
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Cocoa: Agriculture
Asked by: Holly Lynch (Labour - Halifax) Thursday 4th April 2024 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that smallholder cocoa farmers will not be faced with additional costs when the deforestation requirements of the Environment Bill 2021 come into force. Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) The UK recognises the importance of promoting sustainable trade and development alongside action to prevent deforestation. We will continue working with producer countries to ensure that their views inform the Government’s delivery of the forthcoming Forest Risk Commodities scheme, including in respect of smallholder farmers of cocoa and other commodities. The UK will also provide support to help countries to adapt to the new requirements, and benefit from the opportunities which this presents to increase trade in legally-produced commodities. This includes funding a new ten-year £500m phase of the UK’s Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use programme, which work with the private sector to mobilise investment into legal and sustainable commodity production; and provide support to smallholder farmers and poor rural communities who are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The UK is committed to scaling up this work in future. |
Soil
Asked by: Kerry McCarthy (Labour - Bristol East) Tuesday 19th December 2023 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the debate that took place in the House of Lords on 8 September 2021 on the Environment Bill, column 867HL and the Answer of 4 January 2023 to Question HL4404 on Soil, for what reason his Department has not published a soil health action plan. Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) The policies the Government had intended to put in a soil health action plan for England were included in the 2023 Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP). The Government is required under the Environment Act 2021 to report on EIP commitments in the Annual Progress Report, which is independently monitored by the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP). The next report is due to be published by July 2024. |
Parliamentary Research |
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Freshwater habitat restoration - POST-PN-0709
Jan. 17 2024 Found: condition .32 Statutory targets related to the strategy will be introduced via the upcoming Natural Environment |
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Dec. 15 2023
Third Report of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee Workforce Information (Ethnicity) Bill [HL] 2023-24 Select Committee report Found: Information (Ethnicity) Bill [HL] Commercial Organisation and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment |
National Audit Office |
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Mar. 28 2024
wider environmental goals (PDF) Found: October 2019 Environment Bill introduced to Parliament. |
Department Publications - News and Communications |
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Monday 4th December 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: New legislation set to ban live animal exports Document: Action Plan for Animal Welfare (PDF) Found: We are implementing our 25-year Environment Plan , taking our landmark Environment Bill through Parliament |
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Tuesday 19th December 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: I. Set up and initial operation of the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP). Business case: Summary. 28p. II. Letter dated 14/12/2023 from Rebecca Pow MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding a document for deposit in the House libraries following parliamentary questions. 1p. Document: 20231206_Annex_B_OEP_Summary_Business_Case.pdf (PDF) Found: The establishment of the OEP is central to the Environment Bill , ensuring our domestic environmental |
Scottish Select Committee Publications |
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Thursday 28th March 2024
Correspondence - Letter from the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, 28 March 2024 Publication of a consultation on the Scottish Government's commitment to protect 30% of Scotland's land for nature by 2030 Inquiry: Scottish Biodiversity Strategy Committee: Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Found: consultation relates solely to some limited proposals for provisions to be included in the Natural Environment |
Monday 18th March 2024
Report - This report sets out the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee's consideration of the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1. Stage 1 report on the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Rural Affairs and Islands Committee Found: reform bill, Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill, forestry grants, the proposed natural environment |
Monday 18th March 2024
Report - This report sets out the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee's consideration of the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1. Stage 1 report on the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Rural Affairs and Islands Committee Found: reform bill, Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill, forestry grants, the proposed natural environment |
Thursday 29th February 2024
Correspondence - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Net Zero and Energy, 29 February 2024 Breakdown of ministerial responsibilities relevant to the Committee's remit Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Found: Scheme & Waste Issues • Zero Waste Scotland • Nature Recovery Targets (including Natural Environment |
Thursday 8th February 2024
Correspondence - Letter to the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, 8 February 2024 Scottish Biodiversity Strategy (draft Delivery Plan) Inquiry: Scottish Biodiversity Strategy Committee: Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Found: Finally, a future Natural Environment Bill must provide legal back -up for commitments made in the strategy |
Friday 5th January 2024
Correspondence - Submission from Jack Beadle, RSPB Scotland, 5 January 2024 Scottish Biodiversity Strategy (draft Delivery Plan) Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Found: It also critically depends on the Natural Environment Bill in 2024 and how, in particular, legally binding |
Friday 22nd December 2023
Correspondence - Submission from Nathan Bryceland, Scottish Land and Estates, 22 December 2023 Scottish Biodiversity Strategy (draft Delivery Plan) Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Found: : 22/12/2023 SCOTLAND’S STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR BIODIVERSITY Ahead of next year’s Natural Environment |
Tuesday 19th December 2023
Correspondence - Submission from Sarah Cowie, National Farmers Union (NFU) Scotland, 19 December 2023 Scottish Biodiversity Strategy (draft Delivery Plan) Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Found: To achieve the targets that will come through the Natural Environment Bill, and for the Agriculture |
Tuesday 19th December 2023
Correspondence - Submission from Daniel Paris, Scottish Environment LINK, 19 December 2023 Scottish Biodiversity Strategy (draft Delivery Plan) Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Found: of nature in Scotland’ sets out robust proposals for nature targets to be included in the Natural Environment |
Tuesday 5th December 2023
Correspondence - Submission from Candice Hale, Operations Manager, Salmon Scotland, 5 December 2023 Scottish Biodiversity Strategy (draft Delivery Plan) Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Found: HPMAs, what is propose d in the current Biodiversity Strategy (National Park Act amendments, Natural Environment |
Sunday 3rd December 2023
Correspondence - Submission from Elspeth Macdonald, Chief Executive, Scottish Fishermen's Federation, 3 December 2023 Scottish Biodiversity Strategy (draft Delivery Plan) Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Found: there is much detail yet to follow, including the Accountability Framework in the proposed Natural Environment |
Scottish Cross Party Group Publications |
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Minutes of the meeting held on 26 September 2023
(PDF) Source Page: Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Rural Policy Published: 26th Sep 2023 Found: recovery plans, climate change plans, upcoming land use and agriculture targets, as well as the Natural Environment |
Minutes of the meeting held on 6 June 2023
(PDF) Source Page: Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Rural Policy Published: 6th Jun 2023 Found: Rebekah emphasi sed the need to mainstream these messages across policies like the Natural Environment |
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S6W-23053
Asked by: Ruskell, Mark (Scottish Green Party - Mid Scotland and Fife) Monday 4th December 2023 Question To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to align with the EU's Nature Restoration Law. Answered by Slater, Lorna - Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity Scotland and the EU share a high ambition for nature, and are both putting in place the actions required to meet the targets set out in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreed in December 2022. The EU’s provisional agreement on nature restoration seeks to restore 20% of EU’s land and sea. In line with Scottish Government’s commitment to maintain and enhance environmental standards, we have our own ambitious commitment to protect 30% of our land and sea for nature by 2030 (30 by 30). Our Scottish Biodiversity Strategy sets out our ambition to halt nature loss by 2030 and restore Scotland’s natural environment by 2045. Our strategy will be supported by the introduction of a Natural Environment Bill which will introduce a framework for statutory nature recovery restoration targets. In developing those targets we will take into account the position in the EU. We are currently consulting on key elements of the overall Biodiversity Framework, including the Biodiversity Strategy, the first 5 year Delivery Plan, proposals for the Natural Environment Bill, and as set of principles to guide delivery of key commitments including 30 by 30 and nature networks. |
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Key Issues for Session 6 - 2023 Update
Wednesday 29th November 2023 This briefing has been produced by researchers in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe). It provides updates on some of the key issues SPICe identified as likely to be of particular interest at the start of Session 6 along with a number of new policy issues that have emerged since May 2021.The briefing is intended to assist MSPs and their staff, who are encouraged to View source webpage Found: protecting 30% of land and sea by 2030 ('30 by30’) The Strategy is expected to be followed by a Natural Environment |
Scottish Parliament Statistics 2021-2022
Tuesday 28th November 2023 View source webpage Found: Protection from Seizure) Bill; Economic Crime (T ransparency and Enforcement) Bill; Elections Bill; Environment |
The Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill
Friday 24th November 2023 The Scottish Government introduced the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill in September 2023. The bill gives Scottish Ministers the powers to develop a new package of rural policy and support. This briefing includes an explanation of what the bill does, as well as background information on rural policy development to date. View source webpage Found: •A natural environment bill. •A revised Climate Change Plan (must be in place by March 2025). |
Scottish Parliament Statistics 2020-2021
Friday 28th October 2022 View source webpage Found: Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill; Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill; Environment |
Environmental Fiscal Measures for Scotland:
Monday 28th February 2022 This research was commissioned by SPICe on behalf of the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee in Session 5. The report aims to support consideration, in the Scottish Parliament and more broadly by policy-makers, of environmental fiscal measures in Scotland. It explains a range of different types of environmental fiscal measures that may be View source webpage Found: Bill and next Biodiversity strategy . |
Alignment with EU law and the Continuity Act
Friday 29th October 2021 This briefing has been prepared for MSPs and Scottish Parliament committees to support their scrutiny of the Scottish Government's commitment to ensure continued alignment with EU law "where appropriate" and to support scrutiny of the draft policy statement and draft annual report which are statutory requirements of the UK Withdrawal from the European Union View source webpage Found: The Committee notes the UK Environment Bill, as introduced, requires the UK Government to lay a report |
Addressing the nature crisis: COP15 and the global post-2020 Biodiversity Framework
Monday 11th October 2021 This briefing provides an introduction to biodiversity loss - the 'nature crisis' happening both in Scotland and globally. It outlines international approaches to address the nature crisis, notably the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and its upcoming 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) where a new global biodiversity governance framework, goals and targets for the View source webpage Found: An amendment to the UK Environment Bill undergoing scrutiny in the UK Parliament acknowledges this in |
Environment: Subject Profile
Thursday 19th August 2021 This briefing provides an overview of environmental policy and governance in Scotland - including information on key legislation, responsibilities and forthcoming areas of policy development across different subject areas. It is designed to provide Members of the Scottish Parliament with a broad overview of environmental policy and regulation at the beginning of session View source webpage Found: TheUK Environment Bill sets out shared delegated powers to regulate on producer responsibility and resource |
Animal health and welfare - Subject Profile
Thursday 19th August 2021 This briefing provides an overview of animal welfare and animal health policy in Scotland. It outlines key legislation, roles and responsibilities, and topical issues for domestic animals, wildlife, and farmed animals ahead of Session 6 of the Scottish Parliament. View source webpage Found: This is similar to the approach taken to some areas of post-EU exit regulation in the UK Environment |
UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill - Stage 3
Tuesday 15th December 2020 This briefing reviews the progress of Part 2 of the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill which includes provisions on post EU-exit environmental principles and governance. The briefing looks at the scrutiny of the Bill in the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee at Stage 1, issues raised in the Committee report, and at View source webpage Found: executively devolved powers, or where UK Ministers act in devolved areas e.g. using powers in the UK Environment |
Trade Agreements and their Potential Impact on Environmental Protection
Friday 4th September 2020 Trade agreements may interact with environmental protection as a result of differences in standards and measures to protect the environment between trading partners. This briefing outlines differing environmental protection measures and their interactions with potential trade agreements, and discusses Scottish environmental protection in the context of the UK's View source webpage Found: can be found in the SPICe briefings, Environmental Governance in Scotland after EU Exit and The UK Environment |
Issue 12: EU-UK Future Relationship Negotiations
Wednesday 26th August 2020 Following the UK's departure from the EU, the negotiations to determine the future relationship began on 2 March 2020. Over the course of the negotiations, SPICe will publish briefings outlining the key events, speeches and documents published. This briefing reports on Round 7 and prospects for the future talks, alongside updates on Brexit-related legislation at the Scottish View source webpage Found: LCMs are also lodged for the Environment Bill , the Immigration and Social Security Co- ordination (EU |
UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill - Part 2
Thursday 6th August 2020 The UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill was introduced on 18 June 2020 by Michael Russell MSP the Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, Europe and External Affairs. The Bill provides that Scots law can continue to align with EU law after 31 December 2020; introduces guiding principles on the environment into Scots law; requires that View source webpage Found: Arrangements elsewhere in the UK are also under development, including through the UK Environment Bill |
Issue 11: EU-UK Future Relationship Negotiations
Thursday 23rd July 2020 Following the UK's departure from the EU, the negotiations to determine the future relationship began on 2 March 2020. Over the course of the negotiations, SPICe will publish briefings outlining the key events, speeches and documents published. This briefing tracks the negotiation's progress during July 2020 and the UK's preparations for leaving the single market and customs View source webpage Found: Parliament ____________________________________ 20 ECCLR committee report on legislative consent for the UK Environment |
The UK Environment Bill
Thursday 28th May 2020 The Environment Bill is an extensive UK Government Bill containing provisions on post EU-Exit environmental governance and environmental principles, and a range of environmental targets and provisions across policy areas including waste, water, air quality and chemicals. This briefing provides a summary of the Bill, focusing on the clauses which apply in Scotland and their View source webpage Found: The UK Environment Bill |
Issue 3: EU-UK future relationship negotiations
Thursday 26th March 2020 Following the UK's departure from the EU, the negotiations to determine the future relationship began on 2 March 2020. Over the course of the negotiations, SPICe will publish briefings outlining the key events, speeches and documents published. This third briefing covers developments following the first round of negotiations, including in the context of the COVID-19 View source webpage Found: The UK Government published the Environment Bill on 30 January 2020, the reintroduction of a UK Government |
Environmental Governance in Scotland after EU Exit
Thursday 9th January 2020 This briefing considers the implications of EU exit for environmental governance in Scotland. It reviews the state of play and outstanding environmental governance issues in preparation for EU exit. View source webpage Found: In the meantime, the Queen’ s Speech of December 2019 announced the introduction of an Environment Bill |
UK Fisheries Bill
Monday 17th December 2018 This briefing considers the UK Fisheries Bill from a Scottish perspective. The Bill was introduced to the House of Commons on 25 October 2018. It will provide the legal framework for the UK to operate as an independent coastal state after the UK has left the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy. Many parts of the Bill apply in Scotland. There is debate as to whether some View source webpage Found: As things stand, this Bill is opaque about how the forthcoming environment Bill will protect our marine |
Scottish Parliamentary Debates |
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Environmental Governance
130 speeches (85,800 words) Tuesday 5th March 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: Dunbar, Jackie (SNP - Aberdeen Donside) How do you expect to engage in the legislative development of the proposed natural environment bill? - Link to Speech |
Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
219 speeches (116,231 words) Wednesday 21st February 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: Gougeon, Mairi (SNP - Angus North and Mearns) relation to emissions reduction, and we know that that is also being considered through the natural environment - Link to Speech 2: Gougeon, Mairi (SNP - Angus North and Mearns) targets in relation to emissions reduction and the targets that are being looked at through the natural environment - Link to Speech |
Portfolio Question Time
49 speeches (26,396 words) Thursday 18th January 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Golden, Maurice (Con - North East Scotland) It is welcome that statutory nature restoration targets are being considered as part of the natural environment - Link to Speech |
Scottish Biodiversity Strategy (Draft Delivery Plan)
160 speeches (115,266 words) Tuesday 9th January 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: None bill, but we did not have the same process for the biodiversity framework, which includes the natural environment - Link to Speech 2: None bill, which is due later this year. - Link to Speech 3: None bill, and there is absolutely everything to play for in that respect. - Link to Speech |
Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
174 speeches (140,983 words) Wednesday 20th December 2023 - Committee Mentions: 1: None We have the proposed natural environment bill, the Scottish biodiversity strategy, the just transition - Link to Speech 2: None That will be important for the environment bill and for the monitoring of our fisheries, water quality - Link to Speech 3: None If this bill makes reference to the natural environment bill, the good food nation plan and so on, it - Link to Speech 4: None The proposed natural environment bill will set out targets for biodiversity as well as for the wider - Link to Speech 5: None There is no doubt that Scotland’s biodiversity strategy, which will lead to the environment bill and, - Link to Speech |
Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
295 speeches (178,454 words) Wednesday 13th December 2023 - Committee Mentions: 1: None in the early part of next year, and that in the next session of Parliament, there will be a natural environment - Link to Speech 2: Adam, Karen (SNP - Banffshire and Buchan Coast) the feedback was about noting plans—in particular, the good food nation plan—but the proposed natural environment - Link to Speech 3: None What we need under the bill that we are discussing and the forthcoming natural environment bill is not - Link to Speech |
Scottish Biodiversity Strategy (Draft Delivery Plan)
159 speeches (112,757 words) Tuesday 12th December 2023 - Committee Mentions: 1: None if I have read the proposals correctly, by 2025, when the Parliament will be considering a natural environment - Link to Speech |
Scottish Government Consultations |
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Open Consultation: Meeting our '30 by 30' biodiversity commitment on terrestrial and freshwater sites: consultation on legislative proposals Opened: Tuesday 2nd April 2024Closed: Friday 24th May 2024 Found: Plans which will set out the actions we need to take to achieve that vision; andThe proposed Natural Environment |
Closed Consultation: Tackling the Nature Emergency: Consultation on Scotland’s Strategic Framework for Biodiversity Opened: Thursday 7th September 2023Closed: Thursday 14th December 2023 Found: Bill in the current parliament. |
Closed Consultation: Scottish Biodiversity Strategy 2022 Opened: Monday 20th June 2022Closed: Monday 12th September 2022 Found: will lead into the development of rolling delivery plans and, through the introduction of a Natural Environment |