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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 15 May 2025
Planning Reforms: Energy and Housing Costs

"My Lords, in future, a number of major planning applications will require environmental development plans, which will be written by Natural England. Yet there is a great scepticism about the efficiency of that, because Natural England does not have the resources, and it is going to be very difficult to …..."
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Written Question
Fisheries
Tuesday 13th May 2025

Asked by: Lord Teverson (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 10 October 2024 (HC6250), whether it is their intention to ratify the International Maritime Organisation's 2012 Cape Town Agreement on the Safety of Fishing Vessels at the United Nations Oceans Conference in June 2025; and whether they will fully align their policies with the Global Charter for Fisheries Transparency.

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The UK Government fully supports the Cape Town Agreement. It is the first global agreement on fishing safety. It provides mandatory minimum standards to safeguard fishers working at sea and deters vessel operators from engaging in Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. The Agreement achieves this by making poor working conditions subject to detention and inspection globally.

We have worked to ensure that the UK can accede to the Cape Town Agreement. Subject to Parliamentary Scrutiny, we will instruct the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to conclude accession. This will be as soon as possible.

The UK Government also welcomes the broad principles underpinning the Global Charter for Fisheries Transparency. We see considerable merit in its objective of improving transparency and accountability in global fisheries governance and management.

The UK has already implemented many of the policies set out in the Charter. We will continue to keep under active review the steps we can take to combat IUU fishing and will continue to welcome engagement with the organisations which have produced the Charter.

Division Vote (Lords)
12 May 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Teverson (LD) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 62 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 289 Noes - 168
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 06 May 2025
Climate Change: Progress

"My Lords, the report points out that one area in which we have actually moved backwards is the resilience of our water system, not least the atrocious situation that we still have in terms of water leakage. Is this not an example of Ofwat and the water companies letting us …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 06 May 2025
Energy Prices: Energy-intensive Industries

"What lessons has the Minister’s department learned from looking at our competitors, particularly in Europe, which seems to manage this aspect of its energy markets rather better? What lessons have we learned from across the channel?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 06 May 2025
Energy Grid Resilience

"My Lords, the Government have a key meeting coming up with the European Union and, as part of the trade and co-operation agreement, there is, next year, a revision of the energy relationship. With regard to the resilience of our national electricity and energy systems, what do the Government expect …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 06 May 2025
Infrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind and Solar Generation) Order 2025

"If I understand this, you are moving from 50 megawatts to 100 megawatts. So the 50 to 100 goes under the Town and Country Planning Act as local decisions. You are actually increasing it; previously the 50 to 100 was under NSIP. Therefore, what you are saying is completely wrong...."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 06 May 2025
Infrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind and Solar Generation) Order 2025

"My Lords, I pay tribute to the persistence of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, on this subject and to how she has carried this end of Parliament on a number of occasions.

I normally agree with the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, on an awful lot of things but I do …..."
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Written Question
Housing: Carbon Emissions
Tuesday 6th May 2025

Asked by: Lord Teverson (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will include measures to promote nature recovery in the Future Homes Standard.

Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

We intend to publish the Future Homes Standard later this year. The focus of the Future Homes Standard will be to ensure new homes are highly energy efficient and that they are zero carbon ready, meaning they will become zero carbon as the electricity grid fully decarbonises, without the need for any retrofit work.

While nature recovery is beyond the scope of the Future Homes Standard, the National Planning Policy Framework is clear that planning policies and decisions should contribute to and enhance the natural and local environment by minimising impacts on and providing net gains for biodiversity, including by establishing coherent ecological networks that are more resilient to current and future pressures and incorporating features which support priority or threatened species such as swifts, bats and hedgehogs.

Furthermore, the National Model Design Code and Natural England’s Green Infrastructure Framework set out how development can incorporate a range of nature friendly features including hedgehog highways, bee bricks, and bricks with a hole which can benefit sparrows, tree sparrows, swifts, starling, and bats.

These combined approaches will ensure that we are able to support the environment as well as helping us deliver the housing and infrastructure we need.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 28 Apr 2025
Farming: 25-year Road Map

"My Lords, in order to meet the combined objectives of food security and nature recovery, we need a much more nature-friendly form of farming. However, to make that transition, it is absolutely essential that we have a much firmer policy framework that people in farming can predict. When will the …..."
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