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Commons Chamber
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Mon 24 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None The Government and Labour-run Enfield council back the proposals and are using the close proximity to - Speech Link
2: None Brought up, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
3: None Brought up, and added to the Bill. - Speech Link
4: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) to lie this Bill alongside the joint industry and Government taskforce, which reported to the Department - Speech Link
5: Danny Beales (Lab - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) of new powers in the Bill and the Government amendments. - Speech Link
6: Miatta Fahnbulleh (LAB - Peckham) the climate and ecological crisis. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) The Government made a number of important changes to the Bill in the other place, with a view to ensuring - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) I urge the House to support the Government’s position, and I look forward to the remainder of the debate - Speech Link
3: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) to the amendments and the Bill as a whole. - Speech Link
4: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) I am grateful to the Minister and the Government for their willingness to embrace the debate about electric - Speech Link
5: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) to see Lords amendment 29, and that the Government have listened to the points by Historic England and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Mon 27 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) strategies back in the debate on the then Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill. - Speech Link
2: None to the local government organisational structure made under the Local Government and Public Involvement - Speech Link
3: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) the scope of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill to be able to deal with it at a later - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) I urge the Government to commit to a good solution in this Bill and not to push it down the road. - Speech Link
5: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) aim of the Government and those of us on this side of the House to resolve Hillside. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Wed 22 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None I look forward to the debate and to hearing what the Government have to say. I beg to move. - Speech Link
2: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) keeps road closures and traffic lights to the absolute minimum.Councils and the Government have sought - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) to the type and size of development.As mentioned in previous debates, the Government plan to introduce - Speech Link
4: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) It would be invidious to single out just climate change and mycorrhizal fungi in the Bill. - Speech Link
5: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) The only training that they need is to be able to read and understand the technical ecological reports - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Carla Denyer (Green - Bristol Central) about the benefits of marine protected areas, but if the Bill is to signify a new and invigorated Government - Speech Link
2: Pippa Heylings (LD - South Cambridgeshire) bottom trawling within offshore MPAs, and pleads with the Minister and the Government to take the right - Speech Link
3: Steve Race (Lab - Exeter) I welcome the Government and the Minister’s leadership on this issue in bringing the Bill to the House - Speech Link
4: John Whitby (Lab - Derbyshire Dales) further and faster and to do all that we can to protect nature and stop the climate crisis. - Speech Link
5: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Wetherby and Easingwold) we can support the Bill, and it is important to carry on the work that our Government started. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) I am also very grateful to Friends, Families and Travellers for its advice, and to the Public Bill Office - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) Conscious of the time allotted to the Bill, I did not request to degroup on this occasion, but I assure - Speech Link
3: None That is why in 2021 the Government funded and supported the Planning Advisory Service to prepare and - Speech Link
4: Lord Wilson of Sedgefield (Lab - Life peer) to contribute to targets set out under the Environment Act and Climate Change Act and to the programme - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) of Royal Assent to the Bill, and to report on the findings to Parliament.I thank the noble Baronesses - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) So they basically have to start again.At the same time, the Government want to reduce all the current - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) I therefore ask the Minister to set out how the Government intend to align central and local government - Speech Link
3: None As a consequence, one of the aspects that the Government set out in the guide to the Bill is to try to - Speech Link
4: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) This is the Planning and Infrastructure Billthe opportunity to have this sort of wider debate on asylum - Speech Link
5: None reality of the climate emergency, I ask the Government to take this opportunity in the Bill for flooded - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2nd reading - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) I invite the Minister to go to Essex Road some time and see the results of his vision and our ability - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) That needs to be put more explicitly in the Bill, as do the effects of climate change and our need to - Speech Link
3: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) a huge mistake, and by the time the Government get around to sorting their ideas out, those people will - Speech Link
4: None Bill read a second time and committed to a Committee of the Whole House. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage (day 2) - Tue 10 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) Bill goes to the House of Lords—if that is what is required—the Government listen and act. - Speech Link
2: None Today we turn to parts 4 and 5 of the Bill. - Speech Link
3: None The Minister and the Government need to look at our record on first-time buyers and private buyers, because - Speech Link
4: Steff Aquarone (LD - North Norfolk) 151 seeks to have the Government report on, which is tackling the climate emergency. - Speech Link
5: None Bill read the Third time and passed. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Water (Special Measures) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)
Committee stageCommittee: 3rd Sitting - Tue 14 Jan 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) I welcome the opportunity to bust some myths and add some facts to the debate. - Speech Link
2: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) administration, the Government and Ofwat need to be informed at the same time. - Speech Link
3: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) of each clause, which has the best interests of bill payers in mind and recognises the need to debate - Speech Link
4: Neil Hudson (Con - Epping Forest) The previous Government were ready to deliver that and hand the baton over to the new Government, so - Speech Link