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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 26 Mar 2019
REACH etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

"My Lords, much of what I intended to say has already been said, and said very well. Nevertheless, I will add further testimony that reaffirms the comments of my committee colleague, the noble Lord, Lord Teverson.

The experience of serving on the Energy and Environment Sub-Committee of the European Union …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 29 Jan 2018
Environment: 25-year Plan

"My Lords, I declare that I am a member of the European Union Energy and Environment Sub-Committee. My reason for this declaration is that I wish to allude to some of the evidence that we have heard from witnesses and to some of the ministerial replies to our inquiries regarding …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 17 Oct 2017
Brexit: Agriculture and Farm Animal Welfare (European Union Committee Report)

"My Lords, I follow an excellent speech. The six sub-committees of the European Union Committee of the House of Lords have produced a collection of authoritative documents that have revealed in detail the nature of Britain’s relationship with the European Union. I have counted 17 such documents that are addressed …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 16 Jan 2017
Brexit: Fisheries (EUC Report)

"My Lords, the preservation of fish stocks in the face of unbridled consumption is one of the greatest challenges to human social organisation. It is a challenge on a global scale, and it has been met with widespread failure. The failure to preserve European fish stocks is one of many …..."
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Written Question
Water: Pollution
Tuesday 22nd September 2015

Asked by: Viscount Hanworth (Labour - Excepted Hereditary)

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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the current state of the monitoring in the United Kingdom of the industrial chemicals present in groundwater and river water, in particular pseudo-oestrogens (xenoestrogens) and those substances itemised in Directive 2008/105/EC.

Answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble

In England, the Environment Agency has an extensive monitoring network over both surface and groundwaters, to comply with European groundwater legislation (2006/118/EC) and requirements under the EU Priority Substances Directive (2008/105/EC and its update, 2013/39/EU). It monitors surface waters for priority substances (set at EU level), and also certain other chemicals of a national, but not European, concern.

The Environment Agency are developing a programme to monitor priority substances that accumulate in biota (e.g. in fish or shellfish) at a number of freshwater sites in England.

The Environment Agency is shortly to start contributing to the European-wide surveillance of a number of emerging substances of concern (the watch list) required under Directive 2013/39/EU. This monitoring will include the xenoestrogen ethinyloestradiol.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 25 Mar 2014
Water Bill

"My Lords, I support the amendment of my noble friend Lord Whitty. The privatisation of the UK water industry occurred as long ago as the late 1980s, and it was accomplished in a fashion and manner that paid scant attention to the need for an attentive regulation of the industry.

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 06 Feb 2014
Water Bill

"My Lords, as I had occasion to remark at Second Reading, some water companies have been making exorbitant profits on the back of the rather generous tariffs that have been allowed by Ofwat. Whereas consumers were once able to disregard the cost of their water usage, it can now be …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 04 Feb 2014
Water Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 04 Feb 2014
Water Bill

"My Lords, I also thank the noble Lord, Lord De Mauley, for his very helpful approach in informing some of us of the intricacies of the Bill. This is a probing amendment, designed to throw some light on the arrangements regarding the so-called market operator. An electronic search of the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 04 Feb 2014
Water Bill

"I thank the Minister for that explanation. She has told us that the market operator is intended to operate silently in the background but I am not sure that that justifies the complete silence of the documentation we have received about the market operator. This is a fundamental part of …..."
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