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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 29 Mar 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) Phosphates leaching into the River Wye could be stopped by proven phosphate-stripping technology attached - Speech Link
2: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) The River Wye is obviously of huge importance to nature. - Speech Link
3: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) They tried to block our small boats Bill. That is the difference between them and us. - Speech Link
4: Stephen Metcalfe (CON - South Basildon and East Thurrock) Friend will be aware, the Thames freeport was recently given the final go-ahead to become fully operational - Speech Link
5: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) I certainly do support and pay tribute to all those who have made the new Thames freeport possible, with - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 08 Mar 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None should not have to put that on the face of a Bill—although after yesterday and the issues with the small boats - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) I visited a river that was feeding into the Wye—a river that is often raised in this House for its condition - Speech Link
3: Baroness Ludford (LDEM - Life peer) I know I am a broken record in this respect but I have, at various times, referred to the Thames super - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) cleaning up a lot of rivers and will ensure that we have more investment such as we are seeing in the Thames - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Lifeboat Services: Search and Rescue - Tue 10 Jan 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) the London coastguard, which is co-located with the Port of London authority, looks after SAR on the River - Speech Link
2: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) Rescue was set up by local people in 1993 in response to the alarmingly high number of drownings in the River - Speech Link
3: Mark Garnier (CON - Wyre Forest) such as the Severn Area Rescue Association—which works incredibly hard at times of flooding along the River - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK Canals and Waterways - Tue 22 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: James Gray (CON - North Wiltshire) I have the Kennet and Avon to the south of my constituency and the Thames and Severn to the north, linked - Speech Link
2: Siobhan Baillie (CON - Stroud) Severn to the Thames, with water-transfer opportunities woven in. - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) Baillie) puts under the Cotswolds hat—the Stroudwater canal, the Gloucester and Sharpness canal, and the Thames - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Swing Bridges - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LDEM - Life peer) assessment they have made of the need to secure the urgent repair of swing bridges that block the passage of boats - Speech Link
2: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) example, the use of water freight for the construction of Crossrail, the Northern line extension and the Thames - Speech Link
3: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) One is the Canal & River Trust. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) I am not aware that the Canal & River Trust has an interest in the Faversham swing bridge, but I - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Merchant Shipping (Safety Standards for Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Mike Kane (LAB - Wythenshawe and Sale East) The Thames, which we overlook, is home to a large variety and number of passenger boats, which are a - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Achieving Economic Growth - Wed 18 May 2022
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) handy cover to euphemistically deregulate and scrap protections in a race to the bottom Singapore-on-Thames - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) In the week before, from 2 to 8 May, 792 migrants aboard 30 boats were detected. - Speech Link
3: Kate Kniveton (CON - Burton) This includes reconnecting the town centre to the River Trent, making it an attractive location to visit - Speech Link
4: Sarah Green (LDEM - Chesham and Amersham) They talk a good game about their commitment to recruit extra police officers, yet in our local force—Thames - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 27 Jan 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) In the 2019 price review, Ofwat confirmed that Thames Water had incurred a penalty of £148 million for - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) The fishing industry in Shetland is being hammered by Spanish boats engaging in the completely unsustainable - Speech Link
3: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) Yesterday, when asked what could be done to reduce sewage discharges in the River Wye, the Prime Minister - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Throwline Stations - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Natalie Elphicke (CON - Dover) that on that day neither Lucas nor his friends were wearing lifejackets while they played amid the boats - Speech Link
2: Matthew Offord (CON - Hendon) Two days later, I was watching the London news and it said that Harvey’s body had been found in the Thames - Speech Link
3: Matthew Offord (CON - Hendon) He was at a nightclub in Kingston upon Thames, but he was not among his friends when they all left. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Environment Bill
Consideration of Lords message - Mon 08 Nov 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) Member will no doubt be aware that I am seeking water bathing status for the Thames along Port Meadow - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) I therefore urge colleagues to support Lords amendments 31C and 75C.I am proud to have the River Thames - Speech Link
3: Kelly Tolhurst (CON - Rochester and Strood) I represent a constituency that has a great river running through it. - Speech Link
4: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Luke Pollard) said.The Thames runs through my constituency - Speech Link