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Lords Chamber
Pollution in Rivers and Regulation of Private Water Companies - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LD - Life peer) harder for the Environment Agency, the regulators or farmers to know what was being spread on fields—microplastics - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) We know that plastics break down into toxic chemicals and harmful microplastics, and then rivers become - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Recycled Plastics - Tue 13 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord St John of Bletso (XB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, there are growing reports of the detrimental impact of microplastics in the food and water - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) emission, which is being paid for by those fares, and compares that with a similar analysis for planes.On microplastics - Speech Link

Written Statements
International Treaty on Plastic Pollution: Negotiations on Development - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) plastic waste in an environmentally sound and safe manner and eliminate the release of plastics—including microplastics—into - Speech Link

Westminster Hall
Government Support for a Circular Economy - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Ansell (Con - Eastbourne) bottle eventually starts to degrade, it does not simply disappear; it breaks down into smaller parts—microplastics - Speech Link

Written Statements
Water Companies - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) This will help tackle wet wipes containing plastic breaking down into microplastics over time, which - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Water and Sewage Regulation (Industry and Regulators Committee Report) - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Dillington (CB - Life peer) Is it the nitrates or the microplastics, nanoplastics, chemicals or a lack of oxygen that is the more - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Clothing Sales: Sustainability - Mon 11 Sep 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) for Ecology and Hydrology, reported in April last year that wastewater treatment plants remove 99% of microplastics - Speech Link

General Committees
Draft Environmental Protection (Plastic Plates etc. and Polystyrene Containers etc.) (England) Regulations 2023 - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) fishing industries, which are also impacted.As is well understood, plastic eventually breaks down into microplastics - Speech Link

Grand Committee
Environmental Protection (Plastic Plates etc. and Polystyrene Containers etc.) (England) Regulations 2023 - Tue 20 Jun 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Harlech (CON - Excepted Hereditary) fishing industries, which are also impacted.As is well understood, plastic eventually breaks down into microplastics - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) plastics as they are regarded as one of the most pernicious types of plastic and a source of damaging microplastics - Speech Link