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Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage - Mon 03 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) belt or designated sites—not to be built on. - Speech Link
2: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) It is green belt, so it was a bit of a shock for me and the local communities. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LD - Life peer) There is no vision for blue and green space in the New Towns Taskforce report. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Pressures will come from new town developments, changes to the green belt and a lack of support for neighbourhood - Speech Link
5: Lord Cameron of Dillington (XB - Life peer) There are now 300 cases looming against Green GEN Cymru of a similar nature. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)
Committee stage: 12th sitting - Tue 28 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) It is surrounded by green fields. - Speech Link
2: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) Sadly, however, it neglects the role that access to allotments and green spaces can play in boosting - Speech Link
3: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) For them, it would provide the certainty needed to unlock support and drive green investment. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Mon 27 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) it green belt again. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Con - Life peer) The entire green belt could be vulnerable. - Speech Link
3: None belt, and to set out a definition of grey belt and how green belt should be monitored. - Speech Link
4: None Regarding Amendment 239, neither our green-belt reforms nor our updated green-belt guidance makes any - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting)
Committee stage: 10th sitting - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) to have a vote on the decisions that affect them”.Bristol also has a committee system, and Bristol Green - Speech Link
2: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) This is from the Green councillors, and the full story is available in their written evidence. - Speech Link
3: None belt and build on agricultural land across the country. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Wed 22 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) permission should be treated—for example, in relation to planning applications in greenbelt and grey-belt - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Briefly, I will express the Green group’s support for Amendment 87D in the name of the noble Baroness - Speech Link
3: None The Green group will oppose government Amendment 64 in the strongest terms and will express that at every - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) However, I have relayed before my story of a beautiful old farmhouse in my own ward of Symonds Green. - Speech Link
5: None I have received briefings from the Wildlife Trusts, the Bat Conservation Trust and the Better Planning - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Electricity Infrastructure: Rural Communities - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) southern upland way, we were able to look over the award-winning Threepwood Moss, a special area of conservation - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) What was green belt is now being defined as grey belt. - Speech Link
3: Mike Martin (LD - Tunbridge Wells) In Wales, companies such as Bute Energy and Green GEN Cymru, which are both owned by Windward Energy - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Seventh sitting)
Committee stage: 7th sitting - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) That is perfectly acceptable, but we do not think it protects the green belt across this great green - Speech Link
2: None the alarm about the framing of local growth plans and the industrial strategy in the Government’s Green - Speech Link
3: Perran Moon (Lab - Camborne and Redruth) accelerate the transition away from fossil fuel use in order to transition to an economy based on green - Speech Link
4: Miatta Fahnbulleh (LAB - Peckham) Places are already taking into account whether there are green growth opportunities in their area. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
Committee of the whole House - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) The Chagos MPA is one of the jewels in the crown of the Blue Belt programme, a magnificent achievement - Speech Link
2: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) It must remain a visible, audible and measurable commitment to international conservation standards. - Speech Link
3: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) He said it was in the Green Book, but that is for domestic sites and used by the Treasury to look at - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) I suspect that the Government Members who are not filling the green Benches see it as a sell-out, too - Speech Link
5: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) He said that Mauritius was not a Chinese ally because it was not part of the belt and road agreement - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill
2nd reading - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None Committee, and the Prime Minister and the Minister for the Indo-Pacific, on the Agreement on the Conservation - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) These waters safeguard king penguins on the Falkland Islands, green turtles on Ascension Island, grey - Speech Link
3: Emily Thornberry (Lab - Islington South and Finsbury) Member is saying, and he is absolutely right on the blue belt. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) I am really proud to be standing here today, because it is an historic day for ocean conservation. - Speech Link
5: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Wetherby and Easingwold) I welcome her clarification that my party has raised the issue of the blue belt. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 Oct 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Sarah Green (LD - Chesham and Amersham) are concerned about a proposed site for a battery energy storage system on agricultural land in the green - Speech Link
2: Chris McDonald (Lab - Stockton North) The Institution of Chemical Engineers reported last week that there are 800,000 jobs in the green economy - Speech Link
3: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) destruction of the UK’s industrial base that is being wreaked by policies driven by an out-of-touch green - Speech Link
4: Richard Quigley (Lab - Isle of Wight West) What steps he is taking to support green energy companies to build onshore wind turbines. - Speech Link