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Climate Change

Debate on Thursday, 5 November 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Ed Miliband. The answering member was Greg Clark.
Debate on a motion that the House has considered the matter of climate change: preparation for the Copenhagen climate change conference. (Relevant documents: Environmental Audit Select Committee sixth report of session 2007-08, Reaching an international agreement on climate change, HC 355, and the Government response, HC 1055; Fourth Report from the Committee, Session 2008-09, Reducing CO2 and other emissions from shipping, HC 528, and the Government response, HC 1015; and Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 2008-09, Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, HC 30, and the Government response, HC 1063. The Road to Copenhagen: The UK Government's case for an ambitious international agreement on climate change, Cm 7659. The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan: National Strategy for Climate Change, laid on 15 July 2009. Adapting to climate change: UK climate projections June 2009. Letter from the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs dated 16 October 2009 to the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee enclosing a map showing the implications for the world of four degrees of warming.)
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
498 c1007-92 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 498 c1022 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind right hon. and hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed a 15-minute limit on Ba...
Lord Deben | 498 c1008 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that even if we were wrong about human intervention in climate c...

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Ed Miliband | 498 c1009 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important and characteristically smart point. Children really understand...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1009 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right in saying that the politics is behind the science. There has been some c...
Barry Gardiner | 498 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my right hon. Friend has nailed the scientific element at the beginning. Does he agre...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1009 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows much about such matters, and makes an important point. There is a strong scien...
Peter Ainsworth | 498 c1009 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is making an exemplary speech, but is it not the case that more than 18 per c...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1008 (Link to this contribution) I do agree with the right hon. Gentleman. He has made an important point. Let me make another, relat...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1008 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on his argument. I remember that, when his brother was respons...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1008 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I will, of course, brook no criticism of my brother. He does...
Mike Weir | 498 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with what the Secretary of State says about the science, but is not one of the diff...
Colin Challen | 498 c1008 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, not least for making that last point. Just lately, a number o...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1008 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. This may be the point at which the fact that I am not a scientist will come...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1007 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of climate change: preparation for the Cope...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1008 (Link to this contribution) What a range of choices! I give way first to my hon. Friend the Member for Morley and Rothwell (Coli...
Joan Walley | 498 c1014 (Link to this contribution) Deforestation is critical in getting an overall agreement. I was therefore disturbed to read reports...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1014 (Link to this contribution) I am glad my hon. Friend makes that point, because it gives me the chance to make it clear that The ...
Elliot Morley | 498 c1014 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is getting very much to the heart of the matter. I wish to raise the issue of...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1014-5 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend, who knows so much about these questions, is right. We need to agree numbers th...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1015-6 (Link to this contribution) I have made it clear that leaders do have a very important role to play. What President Obama does i...
Parmjit Dhanda | 498 c1015 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend, who is making the case extremely well as to why the Unit...
Colin Challen | 498 c1017 (Link to this contribution) Most of us present today would agree with everything the hon. Gentleman has just said—perhaps up to ...
Greg Clark | 498 c1016-7 (Link to this contribution) May I say how much the Conservatives welcome this important debate at this important time? We partic...
Greg Clark | 498 c1017 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman sets out the challenge and I shall go on to address it in detail. It is very diff...
Karen Buck | 498 c1017 (Link to this contribution) May I return the hon. Gentleman to the subject of error, as mentioned in his quotation from Hayek? D...
Greg Clark | 498 c1018 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend always speaks with clarity, and he certainly did then. That is an important poi...
Peter Ainsworth | 498 c1018 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend might want to point out to the hon. Member for Regent's Park and Kensington, North (M...
Greg Clark | 498 c1018 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Lady is not trying to sow dissent and concern where they do not exist. My party...
Lord Deben | 498 c1018 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that I take a clear view on Europe. Does he not agree that part the role of us ...
Greg Clark | 498 c1019 (Link to this contribution) It is regrettable and it is an important issue of leadership that we should lead not just in negotia...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1019 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to pay greater attention to the actions that have been taken by China, which...
Greg Clark | 498 c1018-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The exercise of persuasion needs to happen in all parties and al...
Greg Clark | 498 c1019 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says from a sedentary position that this is a partisan point, but it is not. No o...
Philip Hollobone | 498 c1009 (Link to this contribution) Kettering was chosen to be the UK representative in the international consultation on climate change...
John Hemming | 498 c1011 (Link to this contribution) On the other arguments for sustainability, is the Secretary of State aware of the recent research do...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1011 (Link to this contribution) Definitely, and my hon. Friend makes a very important point. Her championing of the work done in Sto...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1011 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there are different views on peak oil. I do not want to embarrass the right hon. Member for Suf...
Simon Hughes | 498 c1010 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that there is other clear evidence to support the case for followi...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1010 (Link to this contribution) Having succeeded in getting Kettering's role into our discussions twice in the past two hours, the h...
Joan Walley | 498 c1010 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend's attendance at Copenhagen is important, but on the economic agenda and the way...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1011-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Whatever agreement is struck at Copenhagen, one issue for th...
Jo Swinson | 498 c1012 (Link to this contribution) I am listening with great interest, and I am enjoying the Secretary of State's speech. In terms of t...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1011 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that one of the biggest blocks to progress at Copenhagen is the fa...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1013 (Link to this contribution) We want to limit the amount of money that is spent from the aid budget, but about 10 per cent. of th...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 498 c1013 (Link to this contribution) Is it possible to justify taking 10 per cent. out of the aid budget? Why should part of the financin...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1013 (Link to this contribution) That is an important point, and I promise the hon. Gentleman that I will come to it. We need to be ...
Simon Hughes | 498 c1012-3 (Link to this contribution) There is no doubt that world leaders are taking an interest and Governments are taking a much greate...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1012 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson) that I took her remarks in the spirit ...
Speaker | 498 c1012 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I just gently say to the House that I know there is a lot of interest in speaking in this...
Greg Clark | 498 c1020-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The investments that we need will come mostly from private inves...
Nick Hurd | 498 c1020 (Link to this contribution) I support the comments of my hon. Friend, but does he agree that the Secretary of State did not ment...
Greg Clark | 498 c1021 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that point, and I agree with his analysis. If we regard clim...
Alan Whitehead | 498 c1021 (Link to this contribution) I agree with what the hon. Gentleman has said about additionality, but does he agree that additional...
Greg Clark | 498 c1020 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State says that the ETS revenues are accounted for, but he has not been able to poi...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1019 (Link to this contribution) For his CCS policy, the hon. Gentleman has been relying on the auction revenues from the EU emission...
Frank Dobson | 498 c1021 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's point about 10 per cent., but what we really need is a commitment ...
Greg Clark | 498 c1021-2 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes the exact point that I have made in my remarks. The final essential ...
Elliot Morley | 498 c1022-3 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the debate and the tone and tenor of contributions from Members on both sides of the House...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1039 (Link to this contribution) Although I might take a different view on the broader issue from my right hon. Friend the Member for...
Mark Lazarowicz | 498 c1039 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, from a sedentary position, suggests that people such as the right hon. Member for Hi...
Lord Deben | 498 c1040-1 (Link to this contribution) Let me first declare an interest. I represent a constituency with 74 miles of coastline. Therefore, ...
Mark Lazarowicz | 498 c1039-40 (Link to this contribution) I am in danger of being diverted from the main thrust of my argument down a road that, although deal...
Mark Lazarowicz | 498 c1039 (Link to this contribution) The impact on everyone in the entire world community will be serious, regardless of whether they are...
Mike Weir | 498 c1039 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to what the hon. Gentleman is saying, and I agree with much of it. However,...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1039 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems extraordinarily complacent, like everyone else who has spoken so far, about...
Mark Lazarowicz | 498 c1038 (Link to this contribution) In a second. If the leaders of the world community do not reflect those concerns at Copenhagen, they...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1038 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mark Lazarowicz | 498 c1038 (Link to this contribution) In a second. That political movement is a force that will have its influence felt at Copenhagen, no...
Mike Weir | 498 c1038 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Peter Ainsworth | 498 c1033-6 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend. The fundamental point is that we need to learn again to ...
Lord Deben | 498 c1033 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the example he uses is another pointer to the fact that we cannot thi...
Peter Ainsworth | 498 c1033 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very good point. Of course, people in his part of the world suffer from i...
Frank Dobson | 498 c1031-2 (Link to this contribution) Today's debate is general and wide-ranging, and I will leave it to others to deal with many of the i...
Simon Hughes | 498 c1030-1 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and there is an awareness that those are two huge sectors of international activity that...
Jo Swinson | 498 c1028 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with my hon. Friend about the need to keep the temperature rise to 2°. Does he sha...
Simon Hughes | 498 c1026-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall start where the right hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley) finished and express our thank...
Barry Gardiner | 498 c1028-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that in terms of atmospheric concentration we are already at 387 parts ...
Simon Hughes | 498 c1028 (Link to this contribution) I agree. That is why I take the general approach that the Secretary of State said that he would appl...
Elliot Morley | 498 c1030 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that the Treasury has to be engaged, but there will need to be inter...
Simon Hughes | 498 c1029-30 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The general public at home will not register if we talk about percentage reductions in e...
Elliot Morley | 498 c1023 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. There will clearly be an issue regarding compliance. There must be ...
Elliot Morley | 498 c1024-6 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely accept that point. To be fair to the UK, we have always been clear that we went through...
Lord Deben | 498 c1023-4 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that before we can expect developing countries to make the major...
Simon Hughes | 498 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady therefore agree that it would have been helpful, first, if the Department for Tra...
Nia Griffith | 498 c1054-5 (Link to this contribution) The problem is that the 10:10 campaign represents a short time scale, and many spending plans are in...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1055 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady believe, as I do, that legislators have a key role in holding Governments to acco...
Nia Griffith | 498 c1055 (Link to this contribution) One of the difficulties with planning is that it is a highly devolved issue. Much of the permitted d...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1052 (Link to this contribution) More than a majority? You cannot have more than a majority, can you? A majority may disagree, but m...
Alan Whitehead | 498 c1052 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has read out a very short list, but does he accept that it would take sever...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1052-3 (Link to this contribution) When Einstein came out with his theory of relativity, the Nazi authorities in Germany did not like i...
Nia Griffith | 498 c1053-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate, but it is important that we get on with action ra...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1052 (Link to this contribution) I shall pray you in aid, Mr. Deputy Speaker, when people say that there is only a handful of dissent...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1051 (Link to this contribution) With your permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, the list will be available in Hansard. I have only three m...
Speaker | 498 c1051 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps the House has got the idea, given what the right hon. Gentleman said was the point th...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1050-1 (Link to this contribution) A sort of sceptic, yes. Unlike my right hon. Friend, who is simply credulous. A lot of fairy storie...
Speaker | 498 c1051 (Link to this contribution) Order. This is taking quite a proportion of the right hon. Gentleman's speech. Perhaps it would be b...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I am a global lukewarmist, and I take seriously—
Lord Lilley | 498 c1050 (Link to this contribution) It does. It is unusual for me—
Lord Deben | 498 c1045 (Link to this contribution) If I give way now, I will not be given any extra time. I want to say something very hard to the Gov...
Colin Challen | 498 c1045-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the distinguished right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gumme...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1046 (Link to this contribution) Irrespective of whether the peak happens in 2015 or 2020, does the hon. Gentleman think that it is r...
Colin Challen | 498 c1047 (Link to this contribution) That would call for the most radical transformation of our economy. Many people are working on that,...
Peter Ainsworth | 498 c1047 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will find that the Conservative party is hardly on the fringe and that the low-ca...
Colin Challen | 498 c1047-8 (Link to this contribution) I am always fascinated by cast-iron guarantees, so I shall look forward to reading that document as ...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1048-9 (Link to this contribution) May I draw the House's attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Interests? I wish to return...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1049 (Link to this contribution) I did not know about the Science museum numbers, which are truly shocking. Does my right hon. Friend...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1050 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. The alarmism and the overstatement have caused the problem. ...
Lord Deben | 498 c1042 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly happy to do that, and I hope that my hon. Friend will also congratulate His Holiness ...
Barry Gardiner | 498 c1042 (Link to this contribution) I heartily endorse the point that the right hon. Gentleman is making. Is he aware that Kerala is als...
Peter Ainsworth | 498 c1041-2 (Link to this contribution) I know that my right hon. Friend is not always a huge enthusiast for the workings of the Church of E...
Lord Deben | 498 c1044-5 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman, as I have had this argument with him before. He is wrong,...
Lord Deben | 498 c1042-4 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman suggests, as people's economic position improves, they are able to see how to ...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1045 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has mentioned me a number of times.
Lord Lilley | 498 c1045 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
David Drew | 498 c1055-6 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that there is an onus on individual households, perhaps working in commun...
Nia Griffith | 498 c1056-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed. It is easy to think, "What harm will one more garage or one more patio do?" but we need...
Mike Weir | 498 c1057-8 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to be able to contribute to the debate. Few Members are in any doubt about the reality of ...
Speaker | 498 c1062 (Link to this contribution) Order. The language that the hon. Gentleman is using would appear to involve the Chair. I think that...
Clive Efford | 498 c1062 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My hon. Friend makes a point that everyone would accept and agree with. I shall risk be...
Clive Efford | 498 c1062-3 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have been here long enough to appreciate that I should not use th...
Mike Weir | 498 c1059-61 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman reads my mind to some extent—that is what I was coming to. The danger is that if...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1058-9 (Link to this contribution) We need not only to take people with us, but to come up with a credible plan that suggests that the ...
David Drew | 498 c1062 (Link to this contribution) Climate change affects us all, because the greatest change in Africa now is mass migration, which is...
Clive Efford | 498 c1061-2 (Link to this contribution) Like many who have spoken today, I think that climate change is the most important issue confronting...
Lord Deben | 498 c1065 (Link to this contribution) Is not the United States figure even higher? Many of the green issues are separate from the rest of ...
Lord Deben | 498 c1063 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not find it surprising that large numbers of big companies have been perfect...
Clive Efford | 498 c1063-4 (Link to this contribution) I accept some of what the right hon. Gentleman says. Some uses of HFCs will need to continue, but th...
Alan Whitehead | 498 c1069-71 (Link to this contribution) I have been both encouraged and dismayed by this debate. I was dismayed when the right hon. Member f...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1067-9 (Link to this contribution) I must ask for the hon. Gentleman's forgiveness; I apologise for failing to pick that up, but it is ...
Alan Whitehead | 498 c1067 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that he might well have missed a hint of irony in my previous interven...
Alan Whitehead | 498 c1066 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the hon. Gentleman's speech with interest. I very much agree with a lot of what he...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1065-6 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to my right hon. Friend for correcting me. That helps to put in context the ...
Lord Deben | 498 c1071 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman set aside party politics for just a moment and agree with me that what we r...
Alan Whitehead | 498 c1071-2 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend the Minister is very enthusiastic about the new economic world in which w...
Bill Wiggin | 498 c1072-3 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to Members whose speeches I may have missed during the afternoon. However, I have been a...
Andy Slaughter | 498 c1073 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman wants his political career to go well, he will be familiar with everything tha...
Bill Wiggin | 498 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman thinks that he has scored a goal, but if he buys Paterson-Arran oatca...
Bill Wiggin | 498 c1073-7 (Link to this contribution) We have to do both, because, although certification is helpful, ultimately we all want proper sustai...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1073 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is showing his expertise in this area. Does he prefer following palm oil from product...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1077 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid the hon. Gentleman's point is wrong. There is a lower support for, or belief in, action ...
Desmond Turner | 498 c1077 (Link to this contribution) I wish that we come back from Copenhagen with a significant agreement, but whatever enthusiasm, skil...
Desmond Turner | 498 c1077-9 (Link to this contribution) Well, I find that extremely hard to believe. The resistance to climate change in the US is very stro...
Lord Barker of Battle | 498 c1084-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. If we take Europe as an example of how the world might look and ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 498 c1083-4 (Link to this contribution) This has been an excellent debate. It is rather a shame that it had to end with some rather incohere...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1084 (Link to this contribution) When listening to contributions by some Labour Members, we could be forgiven for thinking that inves...
Karen Buck | 498 c1081 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend also aware that a number of leading Conservative councils have chosen not to back ...
Andy Slaughter | 498 c1081-3 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and I have just mentioned that both my Conservative councils take the same view. That is not...
Lord Barker of Battle | 498 c1081 (Link to this contribution) I want to reassure the hon. Gentleman that there is nothing confused on our side. We are very clear ...
Andy Slaughter | 498 c1081 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that, but we hear siren voices saying very different things. I also remind h...
Frank Dobson | 498 c1080 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the success of the high-speed link to the channel tunnel and the high...
Andy Slaughter | 498 c1080 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my right hon. Friend. I am sure that a number of Ministers would agree, too,...
Andy Slaughter | 498 c1079-80 (Link to this contribution) This has been a wide-ranging debate. Surveying just the contributions from the Conservative Benches,...
Clive Efford | 498 c1087 (Link to this contribution) I was just about to agree with the hon. Gentleman because France does have a centre-right Government...
Joan Ruddock | 498 c1088-91 (Link to this contribution) This has been an excellent debate and I want to comment on the various things that people have said,...
Lord Barker of Battle | 498 c1087-8 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friends point out, that was certainly no criticism of the climate change agenda. As we ha...
Joan Ruddock | 498 c1091-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way; I am going to finish. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said as h...
Lord Barker of Battle | 498 c1086 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I do not necessarily agree with my right hon. Friend. He described himself today as, I t...
Lord Barker of Battle | 498 c1085 (Link to this contribution) I do not quite understand the right hon. Gentleman's point. Substantial UK and international investm...
Frank Dobson | 498 c1085 (Link to this contribution) On international trade and opportunities for profit, surely the frameworks in Germany and Spain that...
Lord Barker of Battle | 498 c1086-7 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the points my right hon. Friend makes, but even if we are at the lukewarm end of the ra...
Lord Lilley | 498 c1086 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend asks a question. May I respond in the form of a question? Does he not realise that mo...
Lord Barker of Battle | 498 c1086 (Link to this contribution) I stand corrected. Let me make a serious point, however. I know that my right hon. Friend is very ge...
Lord Barker of Battle | 498 c1087 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. My hon. Friend discussed a lot of the developments in China that people do not appreciate—fo...
Ed Miliband | 498 c1010 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very important point about the dangers both for those people and, frankly...
Lord Deben | 498 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I will not, because I do not have enough time.
Graham Stuart | 498 c1064-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to take part in the debate, and to follow the hon. Member for Eltham (Clive E...
Peter Ainsworth | 498 c1032-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Frank Dobson), who is ...
Mark Lazarowicz | 498 c1036-8 (Link to this contribution) It is appropriate that I should follow the hon. Member for East Surrey (Mr. Ainsworth) in two respec...
Andrew George | 498 c1033 (Link to this contribution) It is also to do with the issue of invasive plants—Plantlife has done some excellent work in that fi...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1023 (Link to this contribution) In an otherwise excellent speech, the Secretary of State did not say a great deal about compliance m...
Graham Stuart | 498 c1066-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for being true to the Maoist or Stalinist past that he doubtless...
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