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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) Conservation Committee to new licences on environmental grounds. - Speech Link
2: Alistair Strathern (Lab - Mid Bedfordshire) There are fantastic local conservation groups and charities, and some brilliant work is being done by - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) They both undertake conservation work to help to improve nature in their local areas. - Speech Link
4: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield, Hallam) testament to the value that my community and communities across the country place on the preservation and conservation - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
World Species Congress - Tue 14 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) The aim of the debate is simple and straightforward: to recognise the urgent species recovery and conservation - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) To do that the UK’s vibrant conservation sector of non-governmental organisations, which includes zoos - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) It is not okay to go back to the old mantra of, “Shooting bad, conservation good.” - Speech Link
4: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) In 2022, in its updated red list of threatened species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 10 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Randall of Uxbridge (Con - Life peer) It can create the world’s first campus for nature. - Speech Link
2: Lord Camoys (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I refer Members to my register of interests and my chairmanship of the UK Trust for Nature Conservation - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) The argument that the creation of the world’s first multidisciplinary nature campus, bringing together - Speech Link
4: Lord Randall of Uxbridge (Con - Life peer) The noble Baroness, Lady Featherstone, mentioned particularly the therapeutic nature of access, which - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Networks National Policy Statement - Wed 08 May 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) The Minister completely ignored the strong recommendations from the Environment Agency’s Joint Nature - Speech Link
2: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) Even if the national networks NPS could be improved with further reviews of the nature the noble Lord - Speech Link
3: None environmental improvement plan, published in January 2023, is the central pillar of government policy to help nature - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 - Tue 07 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) In 2021, the International Union for Conservation of Nature changed its assessment of bluefin tuna from - Speech Link
2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) My personal assessment of the situation is that ICCAT has a very firm handle on the conservation status - Speech Link
3: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) In England, the inshore fisheries and conservation authorities—IFCAs—and the Marine Management Organisation - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) I go back to the uniquely lethal nature of tobacco smoking; that is the one key argument that we need - Speech Link
2: Steve Tuckwell (Con - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) where we are going to store some of these products if we need to, and even things like the size and nature - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) really quick solution, potentially against an individual salesperson, depending on the setting and the nature - Speech Link
4: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) explained the concerns around plastic pollution from vapes, but what do we know so far about the impacts on nature - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Ocean Treaty - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Scotland’s territorial waters are now designated as marine protected areas, including 247 sites for nature - Speech Link
2: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) Its vital role in protecting the areas of the high seas as part of the global effort to help nature to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Single-use Plastics - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) Since 1996, Carymoor has regenerated 80 acres of a capped landfill site into a beautiful nature reserve - Speech Link
2: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) They have been found in large quantities in beach litter surveys conducted by DEFRA and the Marine Conservation - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) to move,That the Committee has considered the draft Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) Only a few weeks ago, we discussed the Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
Committee stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Willis of Summertown (XB - Life peer) Conservation Committee, but there is a very complicated and convoluted process and path by which the - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) I recall having a useful discussion with the Environment Agency, English Nature and others about how - Speech Link
3: None environmental regulator, OPRED, was satisfied that they would not have any adverse effects or hinder the conservation - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) conservation bodies, to ensure that the impact on the environment, including MPAs, is taken into account - Speech Link