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Westminster Hall
Fishing Industry - Thu 28 Nov 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Anna Gelderd (Lab - South East Cornwall) Damaging practices have taken a significant toll on the marine environment, and urgent action is needed - Speech Link
2: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) Yes, we need renewable energy and we need to protect the marine environment—important sites such as Forvie - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent West) The notion that we can have a thriving fishing industry without a thriving marine environment is an illusion - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Wed 20 Nov 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con - Life peer) They threaten to create a chaotic, fragmented regulatory environment that would disadvantage British - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) His comments about the environment and how appropriate it is to take into consideration things such as - Speech Link
3: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) This already exists, for example, under the Environment Act. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) The Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has set the reduction of waste by - Speech Link
5: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) The whole point of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’s task force is - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Plastics Treaty - Wed 20 Nov 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Simon Opher (Lab - Stroud) delaying the inevitable moment when it is burned or dumped in landfill, or even escapes into our environment - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Member agree that these treaties are great in theory, but that support is needed to reach the targets - Speech Link
3: Uma Kumaran (Lab - Stratford and Bow) According to the UN Environment Programme, 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute, and - Speech Link
4: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and I, in conjunction with the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Chagos Islands - Thu 14 Nov 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None We will work with Mauritius to ensure the continued protection of the islands’ unique environment, with - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) My understanding is that the process will be the usual one for agreeing these treaties. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Chagos Islands - Wed 13 Nov 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) in the UK.We will work with Mauritius to ensure the continued protection of the islands’ unique environment - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Gentleman will be aware of the procedures for dealing with treaties in this place. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
UK-US Co-operation on Using Atomic Energy for Mutual Defence - Wed 23 Oct 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith (Lab - Life peer) committee is currently considering and conducting an inquiry into how parliamentary scrutiny of treaties - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) These are, to be frank, absurdly short and do not allow your Lordships’ committee to subject treaties - Speech Link
3: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I support the ratification of these treaties, which I too consider to be in our national interest, as - Speech Link
4: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) The treaties we have discussed today will enable us to do that. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Strategic Defence Review - Wed 09 Oct 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) We have Russia’s dark fleet sailing around the world undermining all the traditional areas of marine - Speech Link
2: Lord West of Spithead (Lab - Life peer) As noble Lords might imagine, to my mind, it is the maritime environment. We are an island. - Speech Link
3: Lord De Mauley (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We are underprepared to respond to the worsening global threat environment, and in particular to meet - Speech Link
4: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) First, in our unstable and highly contested global environment, it is essential that we uphold human - Speech Link
5: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We may also soon be faced with pressure to enter into new treaties on artificial intelligence. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
British Indian Ocean Territory: Negotiations - Wed 09 Oct 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None The agreement ensures continued protection of the islands’ unique environment, which is home to over - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) I tried 17 times to call for Motions on treaties, which were resisted by the previous Government, so - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) to provide support and resources to Mauritius to protect the magnificent, unique and irreplaceable marine - Speech Link
4: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, can I press the Minister further on the response she gave on the Chagos marine protected area - Speech Link
5: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) The UK will be co-operating alongside Mauritius to make sure that the marine protected area is secure - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Environment and Climate Change Committee Report: An Extraordinary Challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our Land and Sea by 2030 - Wed 11 Sep 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) for the environment in this nation. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) stop fishing vessels from damaging our marine environment and wildlife. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Devon (XB - Excepted Hereditary) That is not because I see the marine environment as any less important; it is not. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 25 Jul 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord McDonald of Salford (XB - Life peer) I note that the US Marine Corps is 30% bigger with 50% more aircraft than the UK’s Armed Forces, yet - Speech Link
2: Lord Soames of Fletching (Con - Life peer) proclaimed ally, Israel, had long been in defiance of the jurisdiction of international organisations and treaties - Speech Link
3: Lord Walney (XB - Life peer) would be an effective mechanism, taking many thousands of children out of poverty.However, in an environment - Speech Link
4: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) and win.Britain and European countries have been decoupling from America on a number of important treaties - Speech Link