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Westminster Hall
Biodiversity Loss - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) Without urgent action to not just halt but reverse its decline, species risk being lost forever from our skies - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) : in Ynys Enlli on Bardsey Island, which is in my constituency, we have had Europe’s first and only dark - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Artificial Light and Noise: Effects on Human Health (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Thu 09 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brown of Cambridge (XB - Life peer) their environment.Our committee member, the noble Lord, Lord Rees, through his work with the APPG on Dark - Speech Link
2: Lord Randall of Uxbridge (Con - Life peer) In the countryside, there are a few areas where it is still quite dark at night. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) In Cumbria, we have dark skies and peace. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) policy strikes me as one of those rare things: a potential Brexit benefit; a silver lining to a deep, dark - Speech Link
2: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) that farming is complex; pressures are being placed on the sector from all sides, including from the skies - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Fri 02 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) provoke action, as well as reflection on the vow of “never again”.Dov Forman also commented on how“this dark - Speech Link
2: Lord Pickles (Con - Life peer) It was a day like this when we first came here, a warm, sunny day, blue skies with cotton-wool clouds - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) I love the Labour Party—I have been a member for nearly 40 years—but this was a very dark time in our - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Duncan Baker (Con - North Norfolk) Of course, the House will remember my record-breaking dark skies debate on the glow worms that inhabit - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Global Combat Air Programme Treaty - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Our skies and international airspace are increasingly contested, not least from threats posed by Russia - Speech Link
2: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) importantly, developing a sixth-generation fighter will ensure that we can continue to safeguard our UK skies - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) Our world has turned a dark corner and has become more angry. - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) This is all a sign of our commitment to the Indo-Pacific and to making sure that the waterways and skies - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Thu 23 Nov 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) However, that is a silver lining among the very, very dark clouds of this autumn statement, because for - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Hertfordshire’s skies would become polluted with endless planes and noise. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Near-earth Satellites - Mon 13 Nov 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) The UK has advocated strongly on dark and quiet skies as part of our leadership on sustainable space - Speech Link
2: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) is working with the international community to understand the requirements for the protection of our skies - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) those landscapes would not mean a reversion to some state of imagined perfection, a mythical past of dark - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) Big skies and rich land, chalk streams and broads, forests and heathlands: many are internationally important - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) retires and lifts his gaze from his own copy of Saga, that he already finds himself in the home of blue skies - Speech Link
2: Iain Stewart (Con - Milton Keynes South) In the skies, 95% of a flight is controlled by a computer, yet people have justifiable concerns about - Speech Link
3: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) Knox of Paignton parish church to see how it has become a hub to ensure that people going through the dark - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) I am really sorry; it is partly my fault.I am also very aware that the internet revolution has its dark - Speech Link