Parliamentary search - Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

679 c1253-83

Session

2005-06

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Report stage

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New clauses

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House of Lords chamber

Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill. As amended in Committee (HL).
Tuesday, 28 February 2006
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Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill
Wednesday, 15 March 2006
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Proceeding contributions

Earl Peel | 679 c1262-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment, in principle at any rate. He has given us a vivid d...

Baroness Young of Old Scone | 679 c1266-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I stand to support Amendment No. 52. I am grateful to the noble Baroness for raising the l...

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Baroness Byford | 679 c1263-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support my noble friend in his desire to have a wake-up call on the needs of not only co...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 679 c1260 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall write to the noble Baroness.

Baroness Byford | 679 c1260 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, while I thank the Minister for her response, I believe she would accept that I am still qu...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 679 c1261-2 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 48:"Page 2, line 9, at end insert—" ““( ) action in the countryside to ass...

Baroness Byford | 679 c1261 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I too should like to welcome my noble friend Lord Mon...

Lord Renton of Mount Harry | 679 c1260 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for giving way. I think she was saying that the budget for the Countr...

Lord Monro of Langholm | 679 c1259 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise for missing the earlier stages of the Bill, which was a great disappointment t...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 679 c1259 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we on these Benches have concerns such as those expressed by the noble Baroness, Lady Byfo...

Baroness Byford | 679 c1257-9 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 5:"Page 2, line 2, at end insert—" ““( ) The functions of the Rural Develo...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 679 c1255 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it seems that we have a difficulty. The Minister has said that there are two case preceden...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 679 c1259-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this amendment seeks to clarify the position of the Rural Development Service. It is not a...

Baroness Byford | 679 c1254 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support my noble friend in his comments. I did so in Committee and do so again on Report...

Lord Bach | 679 c1255 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I said that the consultation was with the staff of the organisations and their partners—th...

Baroness Byford | 679 c1255 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, am I correct that the Minister said that the name was consulted on only within the departm...

Lord Carter | 679 c1254 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we debated this matter in Committee. It would be a shame, when the Bill becomes an Act, if...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 679 c1253 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 1:"Page 1, line 7, after ““as”” insert ““the Commission for””" The noble Lord s...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 679 c1253-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I shall move a little closer to the microphone, which...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 679 c1253 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wonder whether noble Lords who wish to speak to one another could do so outside. We are ...

Lord Bach | 679 c1281 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 72:"Page 4, line 25, leave out subsections (4) to (6)." The noble Lord said: My...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 679 c1280-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply and for the encouragement, as I see it, to pursue some ...

Lord Bach | 679 c1280 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will do so, of course. I suspect that it has the same relationship with the DTI as other...

Baroness Byford | 679 c1280 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a DTI and not a Defra matter, and presumably discussions do take place between the...

Lord Bach | 679 c1279-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I take it that this is really a probing amendment, in the sense that the noble Baroness wa...

Duke of Montrose | 679 c1279 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare my interest, in that I am on a fundraising committee for an environmental resear...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 679 c1277-9 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 55:"Page 2, line 27, at end insert—" ““( ) In exercising its functions und...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 679 c1277 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness who has taken the words out of my mouth—I was going to...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 679 c1277 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should make it clear that when amendments in a group are so disparate, and when noble Lo...

Baroness Byford | 679 c1276 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his full response. I am well aware that we are at Report...

Lord Livsey of Talgarth | 679 c1272-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have not had the opportunity to speak very much on the Bill, for reasons that are probab...

Lord Judd | 679 c1271-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps surprisingly, I would like to give a word of encouragement to the noble Baroness f...

Lord Bach | 679 c1273-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had another excellent debate around the topic of Natural England’s purposes. I tak...

Lord Grantchester | 679 c1270 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I also speak against Amendment No. 52. Following the line of thought of the noble Lord, Lo...

Earl Peel | 679 c1269-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, having spoken to the amendment of my noble friend Lord Dixon-...

Lord Greenway | 679 c1271 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I also oppose Amendment No. 52. I was not present in Committee when we debated a similar a...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 679 c1270-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Farrington, for digging me out of the hole I had...

Lord Cameron of Dillington | 679 c1267-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too rise to talk about Amendment No. 52, and I am afraid I would like to oppose it. When...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 679 c1269 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I could make a general point. When we have a group of amendments, Members are expe...

Lord Chorley | 679 c1268-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is quite often the case that Cross-Benchers disagree with each other. I am not sure tha...

Earl Peel | 679 c1282 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister. Having moved an amendment in Committee to the same effect, I am extr...

Lord Carter | 679 c1282 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we could never see the need for this part of the clause, and we welcome the Government’s r...

Duke of Montrose | 679 c1282 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we, too, welcome the fact that the Government have taken this matter on board. The subsect...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 679 c1282 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 81:"Page 5, line 17, leave out ““4”” and insert ““4(1) or (4)(a)””" The noble B...

Duke of Montrose | 679 c1282 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, once again, I thank the Minister for taking this attitude to this issue. Certainly it is n...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 679 c1283 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that consideration on Report be now adjourned. In moving the Motion, I sugge...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 679 c1262 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Dixon-Smith, on this amendment. The Bill is called the natu...

Lord Bach | 679 c1254-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we thought long about the comments made by the noble Lord, Lord Dixon-Smith, and by other ...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 679 c1260 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that inspiration might come to me in answering that question. It is possible that I...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 679 c1276-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister said in his response said that this was a group of five separate amendments. ...

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