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Public Bill Committees
Energy Bill [ Lords ] (Eleventh sitting)
Committee stage: 11th sitting - Thu 15 Jun 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) That should speed up the consenting process by providing greater certainty and reducing statutory nature - Speech Link
2: Olivia Blake (LAB - Sheffield, Hallam) The UK already faces massive nature depletion—we have has some of the worst nature depletion in Europe—so - Speech Link
3: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) Development consent decisions will also remain subject to advice from DEFRA’s statutory nature conservation - Speech Link
4: None Clause 249 contains a requirement on the regulation-making authority to consult with statutory nature - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Energy Bill [ Lords ] (Ninth sitting)
Committee stage: 9th sitting - Tue 13 Jun 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: None direction.”This new clause ensures that load controllers undergo national security checks to establish the nature - Speech Link
2: Mark Jenkinson (CON - Workington) In my constituency of Workington, I have some wonderful conservation areas with lovely old stone-built - Speech Link
3: Alan Whitehead (LAB - Southampton, Test) the consultation in 2020, he will see that there are certain exemptions, depending on things such as conservation - Speech Link
4: Jo Gideon (CON - Stoke-on-Trent Central) I am not planning to speak on the new clause, but before we vote should I make members of the Committee - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
World Ocean Day - Thu 08 Jun 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sally-Ann Hart (CON - Hastings and Rye) Without careful planning and review of impacts from human activities, both the environment and livelihoods - Speech Link
2: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) South Leicestershire (Alberto Costa), the National Federation of Women’s Institutes and the Marine Conservation - Speech Link
3: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) Friend with more detailed information about any hold-ups that he has identified in the planning system - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Financial Services and Markets Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Tue 06 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) The Government will consult on extending the transition planning requirements—a core component of SDR—to - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wheatcroft (CB - Life peer) However, repeatedly indicating—as they have for five years—that the Government are planning to legislate - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (CB - Excepted Hereditary) It aims to ensure that the conservation and enhancement of the natural environment are included in the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) I want to talk to the House about the real relationship between nature conservation and climate change - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Isle of Wight: Island Designation Status and Landscape Protection - Tue 06 Jun 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) wetland and a RSPB nature reserve—it is not in the AONB. - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) There are also three marine conservation zones: Bembridge, Yarmouth to Cowes, and the Needles. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
New Housing Supply - Mon 05 Jun 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) Hardly anything from that era will be deemed to be a conservation area, unlike so much of the mass development - Speech Link
2: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) The Government do not have these planning permissions; it is the planning industry and the developers - Speech Link
3: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) There could be a grand bargain, whereby we carve house building out of the Conservation of Habitats and - Speech Link
4: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) That is in an uncertain planning environment, where seeking planning permission, as I illustrated earlier - Speech Link
5: Matthew Pennycook (LAB - Greenwich and Woolwich) addressing other pressing national challenges such as the drive towards net zero, the need for urgent nature - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Thu 25 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) Also important is the nature of it. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) Harassment per se also needs a course of conduct, so if it was not a touch of your avatar in a sexual nature - Speech Link
3: None Ofcom is already conducting extensive horizon scanning and I am pleased to confirm that it is planning - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) mind, this may be an issue which we should go through in technical detail and have a more free-flowing conservation - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Woodland Cover Protection and Grey Squirrel Control - Thu 25 May 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) The Wildlife Conservation Trust estimates that, if a farmer planted a tree every 20 metres in half the - Speech Link
2: Earl of Kinnoull (CB - Excepted Hereditary) It will take a lot of effort to deal with further planning and the engagement and education of everyone - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) Sadly, there are now only a few conservation areas for red squirrels left, as we have heard, following - Speech Link
4: Lord Robathan (CON - Life peer) I really farm for conservation—for conservation subsidy, probably—but the birdlife has improved dramatically - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) All this will be done mainly through our £650 million nature for climate fund. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Overseas Territories - Thu 25 May 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) RSPB briefing also notes:“Many Caribbean Territories also still have very weak or absent development planning - Speech Link
2: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) I think the FCDO’s Blue Belt programme is one of the great conservation stories of my lifetime. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 May 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) benefits.I pay tribute to Incredible Edible, a group that the noble Baroness mentioned, which is a force of nature - Speech Link
2: None It is not the church that he knew—it was replaced in Victorian times—but the village is a conservation - Speech Link
3: None The Minister may well say, as Ministers before her have said, that the local nature recovery strategies - Speech Link
4: Lord Foster of Bath (LDEM - Life peer) covered the full range of demands on the use of land, from food production and energy resilience to nature - Speech Link