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Lords Chamber
Transport System: Failings - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord McLoughlin (Con - Life peer) in the Times a few weeks ago about how much has already been spent before any decision on the lower Thames - Speech Link
2: Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington (XB - Life peer) We are now going back to another kind of pilot scheme, along the same route and along the River Tyne, - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) I will quickly mention the Lower Thames Crossing, which the noble Lord, Lord McLoughlin, mentioned. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) The Yangtze river pours more plastic into the ocean than any other river on the planet, and that cannot - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) For example, Thames Water has made a huge profit from its water distribution, but it has run up massive - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2024 Draft Growth Duty: Statutory Guidance Refresh - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) Not one English river is classified as being in a healthy condition. - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) will not speed up the cleaning up of Britain’s beaches and watercourses.If we want companies such as Thames - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) to fund cases, including existing cases.On retrospective effect, the noble Lord, Lord Macdonald of River - Speech Link
2: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) am grateful in particular to the noble Lords, Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede and Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2024 - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) I cite my home river, the River Wye, as evidence of that. - Speech Link
2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) , some of the fittest people in the nation, fell sick because of their exposure to the water in the Thames - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) the Wye Valley and the damage that has been done by the excessive number of nitrates going into the river - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) modest houses and, for an illustration, I shall consider a small estuarine town on the mouth of the River - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
RNLI Bicentenary - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading East) I represent a town further upstream, beyond the tidal reach of the Thames: the tidal section goes as - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) that exotic journey to the Costa Clyde, there has often been the temptation to spend time near the River - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) Bill - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Gareth Johnson (Con - Dartford) tunnel with ULEZ non-compliant vehicles are now having to use the Dartford crossing to get across the Thames - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) expose them to pollution every single day on the school run—particularly over Kew bridge”—over the river - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Stephen Metcalfe (Con - South Basildon and East Thurrock) Friend will know, I have serious reservations about the proposed lower Thames crossing and its ability - Speech Link
2: Sheryll Murray (Con - South East Cornwall) My constituents and businesses face an additional tax to cross the River Tamar to our main city and beyond - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Thames Water: Contingency Plans - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading East) water supply to a large part of Reading recently and, indeed, considerable sewage discharges in the river - Speech Link
2: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) The controversial Teddington direct river abstraction project will allow Thames Water to take water from - Speech Link