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Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 17 Sep 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) I also think of the Inner Thames Marshes SSSI, which is part of the Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) down to such an extent that we really do not have a good picture of what is going on in the average river - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Employment Rights: Impact on Businesses - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lincoln Jopp (Con - Spelthorne) Members get to the River Thames. There are 4,500 small businesses in my constituency. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 12 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness May of Maidenhead (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I declare my interest as an ambassador for Thames Hospice, but the views that I express today - Speech Link
2: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) line and reverse that decision.Finally, to use a classical analogy, today we cross over not only the River - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 09 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Does it disappear off down through some massive Thames pipeline to somewhere beyond Barking, or does - Speech Link
2: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LD - Life peer) Philadelphia, which had a very similar issue to the one that we in London have solved through the Thames - Speech Link
3: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) truly made into environmental oases.One of the big inspirations was when I visited the Canal & River - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
National Trails - Tue 09 Sep 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Roz Savage (LD - South Cotswolds) The River Thames arises in my constituency, and hence the Thames Path does too. - Speech Link
2: Freddie van Mierlo (LD - Henley and Thame) As we have heard, the Thames Path begins in the Cotswolds. - Speech Link
3: Freddie van Mierlo (LD - Henley and Thame) For work to be carried out adjacent to the River Thames, there is a need for a flood risk activity permit - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Uma Kumaran (Lab - Stratford and Bow) This weekend, for more than 30 hours, waste water from toilets, sinks and drains flooded the River Lea - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Epping Forest) The future of Thames Water is in sharp focus again, affecting millions of people and potentially the - Speech Link
3: Steve Reed (LAB - Streatham and Croydon North) The reason that Thames is in the state that it is in is the weak, so-called “light-touch” regulation - Speech Link
4: Adam Thompson (Lab - Erewash) I was very glad to work recently with the Canal & River Trust to get those two boats removed. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of Terrestrial Television - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chris Kane (Lab - Stirling and Strathallan) around small, low-resolution screens to watch pictures of this place—the Houses of Parliament—and the River - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 24 Jul 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) then the water companies which are responsible for the collection of that water, sometimes it is the river - Speech Link
2: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) to date, captured over 7 million tonnes of sewage, which would historically have spilled into the River - Speech Link
3: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) He referred to the success of the Thames Tideway project, and there were a number of references to who - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment - Tue 22 Jul 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Mary Glindon (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend) energy sector is set to create an additional 4,500 jobs in manufacturing and engineering along the river - Speech Link
2: Freddie van Mierlo (LD - Henley and Thame) of inaction, and when I became the MP, I immediately wrote to Ministers, the Environment Agency, Thames - Speech Link
3: Victoria Collins (LD - Harpenden and Berkhamsted) I thank organisations such as the Ver Valley Society, the Friends of the River Bulbourne, Sustainable - Speech Link
4: David Reed (Con - Exmouth and Exeter East) Member for Henley and Thame (Freddie van Mierlo) spoke about upgrading river infrastructure. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Independent Water Commission - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) The quality of a river is about not just the water that goes into it, but the maintenance of the river - Speech Link
2: Calum Miller (LD - Bicester and Woodstock) Thames Water has pumped a further 1,000 hours-worth of sewage into the same river in the intervening - Speech Link
3: Josh Dean (Lab - Hertford and Stortford) Stort and the River Lee. - Speech Link
4: Peter Swallow (Lab - Bracknell) Thames Water has spent thousands of hours dumping sewage into the River Blackwater in Sandhurst and the - Speech Link