Infrastructure Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am completely convinced by my noble friend’s reply and am interested to know that the...

Tabled by

Baroness Worthington

95ZBE: Line 16, at end insert—

“(6) No later tha...

My Lords, I am afraid that I am not reassured by the noble Baroness’s reply either, welcome thoug...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

95ZBF: Before Clause 28, insert the following new Clause—

Moved by

Baroness Verma

95ZBG: Before Clause 28, insert the following new Clause—

Tabled by

Lord Whitty

95ZBH: Line 13, at end insert—

“(c) make provision for an...

My Lords, I am not entirely convinced by what the Minister said. Indeed, her reference to the nee...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

95ZBJ: Before Clause 28, insert the following new Clause—

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

95ZBM: Before Clause 28, insert the following new Claus...

I shall speak also to Amendments 95ZBN and 95ZBP. This carries on from where we left off in the l...

My Lords, I wanted to address this series of amendments not because I am opposed to any of them b...

My Lords, I do not think that any of us is in any doubt about the importance of baseline monitori...

My Lords, I shall comment on baseline monitoring. We need to learn from other monitoring schemes ...

My Lords, I entire agree with the noble Baroness when she says that the task is to increase peopl...

My Lords, I want to underline one point under Amendment 95ZBN, which will be tedious because it w...

My Lords, again, I am extremely grateful for the measured way in which this debate is taking plac...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response although, again, I am not wholly reassured. Parti...

Of course, the Environment Agency has to be satisfied. As the noble Baroness is aware, it is amon...

Absolutely, but the noble Baroness will also be aware that it is under quite considerable pressur...

Again, I apologise for intervening but I should like to reassure the noble Baroness that the Envi...

Then perhaps my anecdotal point about the money being asked for in order to do the very best in l...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

95ZBQ: Before Clause 28, insert the following new Claus...

On to another topic, although a related one. Many of us in this room today spent a good deal of t...

I listened to the noble Baroness with great interest. I had not interpreted this amendment as bei...

My Lords, when I saw this amendment, I thought that it looked remarkably familiar. It took me bac...

My Lords, I support the amendment and my noble friend. The arguments she made during the Energy B...

My Lords, briefly, I support the thinking behind the amendment. I have two points. There has been...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for tabling these amendments. I know that many of u...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her reply. I am particularly grateful to the noble Lo...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

95ZCA: Before Clause 28, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, it is approaching 6 pm and we have been here for some time, so I do not propose to spea...

Since we are in Committee, why did the noble Baroness not just delete the whole of subsection (5)...

That is a good question. In the interests of taking out the most annoying part of the Act, we res...

My Lords, as I made clear during previous discussions on the Energy Bill—now the Energy Act—a dec...

My Lords, I do not propose to detain us any longer on this. I listened to that response. I sincer...

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

95ZD: Clause 28, page 28, line 23, leave out “this Part” and...

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

95B: Clause 28, page 28, leave out line 25 and insert “the a...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

96: After Clause 28, insert the following new Clause—

“P...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendment 100. These amendments are nothing to do with fracking. T...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, and in particular his request for the Minister...

My Lords, I will briefly intervene, not because I have the expertise of my noble friend Lord Berk...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for raising this issue. I know tha...

I am very grateful to the Minister for a comprehensive reply. It was a probing amendment, and one...

Moved by

Lord Jenkin of Roding

96ZA: After Clause 28, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, I beg to move the new clause standing in my name. To begin with, perhaps I may say that...

My Lords, I support this amendment. When I read it I thought that it was a breath of fresh air, w...

My Lords, as a former consumer champion, I am fully in support of what the noble Lord, Lord Jenki...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, on putting forward a very useful amen...

My Lords, I am afraid that I wear a number of hats with this Bill. While much of the advice has c...

I start by saying that I am most grateful to noble Lords who have voiced their support for the am...

The language of the amendment is that the Treasury must assess the,

“cumulative impact of i...

I quite understand that. I take that point. Indeed, I read the evidence that was given to the Pub...

Moved by

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

96ZAA: After Clause 28, insert the following ...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con):

My Lords, it is with a strong sense of being tail-end...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend on putting forward this excellent amendment. It would be...

My Lords, I am happy to support this amendment. It is probably two weeks ago today that I was in ...

My Lords, I will be very brief. First, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, on his excell...

My Lords, first, I thank my noble friend Lord Hodgson for his amendment and for the most eloquent...

Could I ask the Minister whether she thinks she will put it in her manifesto?

I have laid out very clearly our position in government. Generally, hypothecation of revenue is n...

I thank my noble friend. I feared that “inappropriate” and “hypothecation” would be words used in...

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

96ZB: Clause 29, page 28, line 35, after “26” insert “or (Le...

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

97: Clause 30, page 29, line 18, leave out “, 13 and 14” and...

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

98A: Clause 31, page 30, line 9, leave out “and 25” and inse...

I have to advise the Committee that if Amendment 98AZA is approved, I shall not be able to call A...

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

98AZA: Clause 31, page 30, line 14, leave out subsection (5)...

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

98B:In the Title, line 9, after “charges;” insert “to make p...

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

99A: In the Title, line 10, after “facilities;” insert “to m...