Parliamentary search - Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill 2005-06

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678 c102-22

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2005-06

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Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory notes HL Bill 23-EN also published.
Wednesday, 12 October 2005
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Proceeding contributions

Baroness Byford | 678 c103 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 111:"Page 2, line 7, leave out from ““purpose”” to end of line 8 and insert ““un...

Lord Bach | 678 c102-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that the House do now again resolve itself into Committee on this Bill. Mov...

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Baroness Byford | 678 c103 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for coming back. I think it was about seven o’clock that night. It was certainl...

Lord Grocott | 678 c103 (Link to this contribution) For the sake of accuracy, we did not start at quarter to nine on the first day. As the noble Barones...

Baroness Byford | 678 c103 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to both gentlemen. We had a three-and-a-half-hour break.

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 678 c103 (Link to this contribution) As I was partly responsible for the later business that was intended to last 45 minutes and lasted a...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 678 c103-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Baroness for giving way. I agree with the points made by the noble Baroness, Lady ...

Baroness Byford | 678 c104 (Link to this contribution) To put 40 noble Lords in the Moses Room is not an ideal situation. That is enough. We are moving mor...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 678 c104 (Link to this contribution) There were 40 noble Lords.

Baroness Byford | 678 c104 (Link to this contribution) I take that point, but there are quite a few noble Lords sitting on the Benches. I believe that last...

Lord Carter | 678 c104 (Link to this contribution) If the Bill had been dealt with in Grand Committee, as I believe it should have been, none of those ...

Lord Rotherwick | 678 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) I support my noble friend Lady Byford. Last time we were in Committee, the Minister gave me a defini...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 678 c105 (Link to this contribution) This group of amendments is another example of the fact that this clause is not drafted satisfactori...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 678 c104-5 (Link to this contribution) I support my noble friend’s amendment. It makes more sense for the general purposes of Natural Engla...

Earl Peel | 678 c108 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Carter, has made an interesting point. My amendment would apply only to Natural...

Lord Carter | 678 c108 (Link to this contribution) I added my name to Amendment No. 116 simply to ask for clarification, which I hope will be forthcomi...

Lord Rotherwick | 678 c116 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to be late in rising to support my noble friend Lady Byford. We come back to the theme of...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 678 c116-8 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may deal first with the point raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Miller, and the issue sup...

Earl Peel | 678 c118 (Link to this contribution) I have never really understood the meaning of ““spatial”” in this context. Can the noble Baroness sp...

Lord Bach | 678 c113 (Link to this contribution) Not for the first time the noble Baroness has hit on an interesting and important point. We are spea...

Baroness Byford | 678 c113-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his response. We have started out with an interesting group of three amendm...

Baroness Byford | 678 c114 (Link to this contribution) I am always delighted to give way to receive such news. I thank the Minister. I suspect—unless I am ...

Baroness Byford | 678 c114-5 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 114:"Page 2, line 9, leave out ““conserving”” and insert ““protecting”” ." The ...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 678 c115-6 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak to Amendment No. 115, which is in the same group. It is a probing amendment which expl...

Lord Bach | 678 c113 (Link to this contribution) That is very generous of the noble Lord. I will look at the statement and either in the course of th...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 678 c113 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister will forgive me for intervening yet again, but his response has convinced m...

Earl Peel | 678 c112 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Minister for those helpful remarks.

Lord Rotherwick | 678 c112-3 (Link to this contribution) I should like to raise a small point that I failed to raise before. I do not know if the Minister wa...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 678 c113 (Link to this contribution) Some of the Minister’s remarks were very helpful, and I will read them carefully. On the general pur...

Lord Grantchester | 678 c108-9 (Link to this contribution) I, too, rise to speak to Amendment No. 116. As this is the first time that I have spoken in Committe...

Lord Bach | 678 c110-2 (Link to this contribution) We have had a very interesting debate to start our proceedings today. I think it is doubtful that we...

Lord Bach | 678 c112 (Link to this contribution) That is rather what we thought. The addition to the general purpose of Natural England, to refer to ...

Lord Greenway | 678 c109-10 (Link to this contribution) I sat through our proceedings last week, and was not certain when to make these remarks, which are m...

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 678 c110 (Link to this contribution) In view of the hour, I shall do my best to be very brief. I declare the same interests as I declared...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 678 c121 (Link to this contribution) If it will help the noble Duke, I should tell him that it did.

Duke of Montrose | 678 c121-2 (Link to this contribution) That is certainly very helpful. At this stage, although we may consider the matter further later on,...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 678 c122 (Link to this contribution) This would be an appropriate moment for the Committee to adjourn. I beg to move that the House do no...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 678 c120 (Link to this contribution) I must admit that I was rather puzzled by the noble Duke’s support for this amendment, which would r...

Lord Judd | 678 c119-20 (Link to this contribution) I have before explained my interests to the Committee and I shall not bore the Committee by going ov...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 678 c120 (Link to this contribution) For the record, I greatly agree with the noble Lord, Lord Judd. Going back to his previous comments,...

Baroness Byford | 678 c119 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Farrington of Ribbleton, but I do not know that it does. T...

Duke of Montrose | 678 c119 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 117:"Page 2, line 10, leave out paragraph (c)." The noble Duke said: Amendment ...

Earl Peel | 678 c119 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to prolong this. The term ““regional”” I understand fully; it is the combination of ““...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 678 c119 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that. I misunderstood the purpose of the question; I thought I was being asked to ...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 678 c118-9 (Link to this contribution) I understood the noble Earl, Lord Peel, to ask me about the word ““spatial””; I did not think that h...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 678 c118 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that ““spatial”” is to do with area, relationships between areas and the managem...

Duke of Montrose | 678 c120-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for her remarks. Although there is an element of probing in the amendment, we m...

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 678 c118 (Link to this contribution) In the debate on the Greater London Authority Bill, back in the late 1990s, we debated a regional sp...

Earl Peel | 678 c105-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak to Amendment No. 116, which stands in my name and is grouped with Amendment No. 111. ...

Lord Judd | 678 c116 (Link to this contribution) It is very seldom that I find myself not endorsing the concerns of the noble Baroness, Lady Miller. ...

Lord Bach | 678 c114 (Link to this contribution) If the noble Lady would be kind enough to permit me to speak now, that would assist me in answering ...

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Joint Nature Conservation Committee

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Nature conservation

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Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill 2005-06

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