Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering; I echo...

My Lords, I too commend the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, for her points; I support all of them....

As the responsible Minister during much of the period in which these European Union regulations w...

My Lords, I will introduce the words “climate change” at this point, simply because it seems, to ...

My Lords, I will add just a couple of things. I thank my noble friend the Minister for so clearly...

My Lords, I strongly endorse the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Deben. We had real issues about...

I too put on record my congratulations to the noble, Lord Deben, not for the first time, for his ...

My Lords, I refer to my interests as set out in the register and thank the Minister for his expla...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions, which have shown that we take these ma...

I thank the Minister for giving way. Does he not accept that one very important thing we shall lo...

Had the noble Lord known what was coming in my remarks, he might have been furnished with the res...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord again, but I am afraid that he may have missed the point. ...

I will continue to talk about the regulator, but I will say that I know from my experience of the...

I was intrigued by the noble Lord’s statement that the OEP would enforce regulation and complianc...

I admire the noble Baroness’s inquiring mind. Clearly, that will be relevant to the environment B...

Of course my noble friend is saying exactly what he and I would want. But I remind him that when ...

My Lords, the Minister made great play of the fact that we could perhaps want to go further than ...

My Lords, I think that in the mood of the times on the environment and all that we have seen, whe...

Perhaps I might press the Minister on the consultation arrangements. This is a point I have made ...

I have a feeling that that may be above my pay grade, but it is certainly an interesting and legi...

The Minister has been very clear about the benefits of regulation, particularly for the environme...

When I read the first draft of the Explanatory Memorandum, my thoughts were that lawmaking can be...

Before my noble friend sits down—

I have not sat down yet.

No. I was hoping to say something before my noble friend sat down.

I have not sat down but I think that we are starting to elongate this matter and I ought to concl...