"My Lords, I echo the comments of my noble friend from the Front Bench, and I will speak to Motion G.
I take this opportunity to most warmly thank the Minister for meeting with a group of us this week and following that up with a meeting with the Music …..." Baroness McIntosh of Pickering - View Speech
"My Lords, I am grateful to everybody who spoke. For all the reasons we rehearsed in our arguments when we moved the amendments, I would like to test the opinion of the House...." Baroness McIntosh of Pickering - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government whether funding will be available under the Sustainable Farming Incentive to permit farmers to undertake environmental measures for the purposes of flood prevention and drought resilience...." Baroness McIntosh of Pickering - View Speech
"My Lords, I welcome that Answer and the information. I also welcome the department’s recently published independent report on flourishing uplands, which highlights graphically the tensions between farmers and environmentalists. It makes no economic sense at all for productive farmland to be flooded when farmers are providing 62% of the …..." Baroness McIntosh of Pickering - View Speech
"My Lords, I shall press the Minister on North Sea oil, as she rehearsed it this afternoon. We just had a debate on clean energy. My noble friend Lord Moynihan on the Front Bench said that 70% of gas imports to the UK are coming from Norway and that they …..." Baroness McIntosh of Pickering - View Speech
"My Lords, I am delighted to have secured this debate and I look forward to hearing all contributions, particularly the maiden speech. I declare my interest as honorary president of National Energy Action and the UK Warehousing Association. I also serve on the Environment and Climate Change Committee.
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan upon rural communities...." Baroness McIntosh of Pickering - View Speech
"I am not accusing the Minister in any way of misleading the House, because this is from a different department, but the actual figure that was consulted on by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in January 2025 was that more than 10% of farmland in England was …..." Baroness McIntosh of Pickering - View Speech
"My Lords, does the Minister not agree that Denmark—where renewables, on which Denmark excels, are highly developed—is the largest producer of oil and gas in the European Union? We will continue to need fossil fuels, in addition to renewables, going forward...." Baroness McIntosh of Pickering - View Speech