Environmental Protection

The purpose of these instruments is to strengthen environmental civil sanctions, so that our envi...

I very much welcome these Government measures. Last week, we on the Environment, Food and Rural A...

Order. I have two points to make. First, interventions should be interventions, not speeches. Sec...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right about these measures. By voting for them today—of course, they...

Last year, Anglian Water used its storm overflows in Southend West at least 13 times, which resul...

My hon. Friend is right. By giving our regulators the tools that they have asked us for, we are t...

Can the Secretary of State reassure us that any fines will be used to improve water infrastructur...

Indeed. I was planning to explain shortly how the penalties will be used. They will go into the n...

I understand what the Government are trying to achieve, but as the Secretary of State points out,...

On the farming laws related to water, we normally find that people are not trying to break the la...

What will be done to force the Environment Agency to do its duty? In the lower Avon, north of my ...

Clearly, my hon. Friend is an assiduous constituency MP in raising this issue during our discussi...

My right hon. Friend is being generous in giving way. My constituents, almost by historical accid...

We are straying somewhat from the purpose of the statutory instruments that we are dealing with t...

On the subject of penalties, one thing probably annoys most of us—it certainly annoys many of my ...

The water industry in Northern Ireland is not covered by the UK Government. It is a separate syst...

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s very timely regulations. This Thursday I am meeting the Environm...

My right hon. Friend makes an interesting point. It is the intention that the penalties will be p...

The only reason we are here today is that, after 13 years, the country we love, and the quality o...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there is scaremongering by Opposition MPs about the level of s...

Nuance and facts do matter in this type of debate, but the facts speak for themselves, frankly: g...

As the hon. Gentleman will know, there is a great deal of debate at the moment not just about the...

I will check the voting record later, but we presented our plan to Parliament, and Members had th...

rose—

I am going to make some progress.

Perhaps he could tell us, as it is his plan, what the figure is?

Order.

If the right hon. Gentleman is excited at this point, he is going to get even more animated short...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that Labour’s plan, let alone not being fully costed, would have tr...

Government Members seem to be under the misapprehension that our costings for the manifesto are i...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will make some progress.

Since we presented that Bill to the House for debate, 40,000 sew...

The hon. Gentleman describes a very long-standing problem. Does he have evidence to suggest that ...

I am very proud of Labour’s record of leaving the cleanest air and water since before the industr...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?

I will make some progress, if I may. This is all about whether families can live decent and fulfi...

The title of these statutory instruments is “Environmental Protection”, but they should perhaps p...

My hon. Friend is right to bring up the problems for house building from the nutrient neutrality ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for those comments, because he is absolutely right. Blunt instrument...

As the House may know, it is not often that my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Damian G...

I am struggling to think of those lanes where Natural England does things well. An overhaul of th...

I want to make only a few brief points. First, the purpose of these regulations is to strengthen ...

He did.

No, he did not. Perhaps there is a reason why. On 25 April, the Daily Express reported, “Tories h...

Did my right hon. Friend also note that, as the shadow Secretary of State talked about the passio...

I thank my hon. Friend for that helpful observation. The passion on the Labour Back Benches has a...

Order. Could I gently try to connect the hon. Gentleman’s speech with the motion before the House...

In the interests of equity, I was allowing the shadow Secretary of State to intervene on me. Perh...

I am grateful to right hon. and hon. Members for the wide-ranging contributions to the discussion...