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Commons Chamber
Environment Bill
Report stage - Tue 26 Jan 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) We are ingesting the microplastics that get into fish and inhaling plastic that is in our clothes and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 21 Jan 2021
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Alberto Costa (CON - South Leicestershire) I am chairman of the all-party group on microplastics and, working with colleagues from across the House - Speech Link
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) It is also right to say that more needs to be done to tackle other sources of microplastics. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Environment Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 14th sitting - Thu 12 Nov 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) Great work is being done on microbeads and microplastics, which the hon. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Mon 26 Oct 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) air pollution on health; or the as yet little understood but extraordinarily pervasive existence of microplastics - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 15 Oct 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Pawsey (CON - Rugby) involves using an additive in conventional plastics that causes them to break down and fragment into microplastics - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
River Pollution - Wed 16 Sep 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) prevent this and to clear the existing contamination of plastics, preferably before they break down into microplastics—or - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Science Research Funding in Universities (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Wed 09 Sep 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) situation, when we are asked to take political decisions on things such as the dangers of particulates or microplastics - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environmental Protection (Plastic Straws, Cotton Buds and Stirrers) (England) Regulations 2020 - Fri 10 Jul 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) The full impacts of the dangers of microplastics are still being uncovered.Even when some single-use - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Researchers said that microplastics are now an integral part of the soil food web. - Speech Link
3: Lord McColl of Dulwich (CON - Life peer) The inhalation of microplastics is causing health difficulties in textile workers. - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Are microplastics actually dangerous? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Environmental Protection - Mon 15 Jun 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) Furthermore, plastic that escapes into the environment will eventually break down into microplastics, - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) this, because the pandemic may be with us for months, but the damage done by plastic pollution and microplastics - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) and I want to touch on a few of the things that are being done: we already have the microbeads and microplastics - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Environment Bill (Third sitting) - Thu 12 Mar 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) That looks at things such as microplastics, antimicrobial resistance and exotic chemicals that may be - Speech Link