All 3 Lord Alderdice contributions to the Environment Act 2021

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Mon 21st Jun 2021
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Amendment 3 not moved.
Lord Alderdice Portrait The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Lord Alderdice) (LD)
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My Lords, we now come to the group consisting of Amendment 4. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a Division must make that clear in debate.

Amendment 4

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Committee stage
Wednesday 23rd June 2021

(3 years, 5 months ago)

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I think I have reached the end of the amendments, so I will end by simply saying, as I have before, that I hope this reassures all noble Lords, and I ask them to withdraw or not press their amendments.
Lord Alderdice Portrait The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Lord Alderdice) (LD)
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I have received requests to speak after the Minister from the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, and the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay of Llandaff. I call the noble Lord, Lord Lucas.

Lord Lucas Portrait Lord Lucas (Con) [V]
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My Lords, may I press the Minister a bit further on the local nature of pollution, particularly air and water? To pick another example, phosphate in rivers can be a problem, but in the southern Hampshire rivers it is a particular problem because of the sensitivity of the estuarine ecologies to excess phosphate, whereas it might not be such a problem in another ecology. In that circumstance, it becomes crucial to know where the phosphate is coming from; how much comes from agriculture and sewage; which particular bits of land it comes off; and what practices are available to reduce it and are effective in reducing it in those circumstances. That needs a local level of focus and research, and I did not hear anything in his answer—and indeed there was a good deal to worry about in what the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, said—which gave me a clue about where that evidence can come from.

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Clause 2: Environmental targets: particulate matter
Lord Alderdice Portrait The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Lord Alderdice) (LD)
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We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 20. Anyone wishing to press this or anything else in this group to a Division must make that clear in debate.

Amendment 20

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Amendment 286 withdrawn.
Lord Alderdice Portrait The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Lord Alderdice) (LD)
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We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 287. Anyone wishing to press this or anything else in this group to a Division must make that clear in debate.

Amendment 287

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Clauses 140 and 141 agreed.
Lord Alderdice Portrait The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Lord Alderdice) (LD)
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That concludes the Committee’s proceedings on the Bill. The House will now resume.

House resumed.