Environment Bill

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Lords amendment 2, and Government...

I am delighted to be cracking on with the Environment Bill. It has dominated my whole life as an ...

I genuinely thank the Minister for all the incredible work she has done. She talks about the impo...

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. Obviously, we take SSSIs extremely seriously under their...

I am a little concerned to hear the Minister say that they are still not ready to go ahead. From ...

I am pleased that the hon. Member, like me, is deeply passionate about soil. I think I held the f...

I know the Minister is personally committed to the soil agenda—I remember sitting with her on the...

I completely disagree with the hon. Lady, although I am listening to what she is saying. There is...

I thank the Minister for presenting the Bill. We really do need to get to this target quickly. We...

My hon. Friend takes a huge amount of interest in this issue and I know my officials met him very...

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I am just going to answer this question.

Yes, the WHO has already lowered what it thinks is...

In the spirit of what we all felt and discussed after the tragedy of last week, I feel passionate...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention and for all his work in this area. In the spirit...

Given that the World Health Organisation had a target of 10 micrograms per cubic metre, which we ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. We have met many, many times and we share a com...

I understand that the Minister wants a consultation. I see good sense in that if we are to take t...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, but we already have our clean air strategy, as I sa...

I wholeheartedly agree with the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill). Furth...

I know that the hon. Gentleman is a keen runner and gets out and about, probably on his bicycle a...

The Minister is being generous and kind in giving way again. Has she seen the experiment in the c...

I would suggest a meeting with the new air quality Minister—actually, I meet Sir Stephen Holgate ...

Will the Minister give way?

I am going to plough on for a bit, because I think I have been pretty generous so far. The two ta...

The Minister is a doughty champion on this issue so I rise with some degree of trepidation. May I...

I thank my hon. Friend for that question, but I think we would have as many critics for not consu...

I was not criticising the decision that the Minister has taken to consult on this issue. I merely...

I imagine my hon. Friend knows the answer to that.

I do not.

The method we choose is to consult and to take expert advice in everything we do, particularly in...

We are so delighted to see my hon. Friend in this role, taking the Bill through, but why does she...

Data is key, and science is key. As I mentioned—and I was slightly disparaged—that is why we want...

Will the Minister give way?

For the last time, and then I will need to make some progress.

Order. I am very conscious that a lot of Members want to speak and that the debate has to finish ...

Apologies, Madam Deputy Speaker; it is only my second intervention, and it will be my last for th...

I thank the hon. Member for that question. In true Government-speak, I will say “shortly” and mov...

What would happen if the Northern Ireland Assembly said that it did not agree with the legislatio...

Northern Ireland is included in this, but it has to decide whether it wants to commence the power...