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Commons Chamber
Welsh Affairs - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) That situation is not reflected anywhere else in the England and Wales legal system, and, sooner or later - Speech Link
2: David Jones (Con - Clwyd West) It is not easy for farmers, for commuters, for business people or for families. - Speech Link
3: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) The ancient Welsh word “llan” means a clearing in the trees where a church was built.Some 1,500 years - Speech Link
4: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) Imagine what we could achieve in Wales with that money.Devolving the Crown Estate would also give us rights - Speech Link
5: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) planting trees and other wildlife schemes dreamed up by people who do not know what the countryside - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) In 2019, UK support for sexual and reproductive health and rights was £748 million; by 2021, it was £534 - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Winchester (Bshp - Bishops) That ancient compact was a key moment in the developing relationship between Church and state that has - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) For example, restoring the legal requirement of 0.7% of GNI on ODA “when the fiscal circumstances allow - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
2nd reading - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Bill will also simplify the legal requirements around research and bring legal clarity. - Speech Link
2: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) The second is where there are aspects of the UK legal regime for security-related surveillance that are - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) and being able to assign data rights to third parties for agreed purposes. - Speech Link
4: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I hope that my noble friend Lord Trees will not mind having his monopolistic position in the field broken - Speech Link
5: Lord Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham (Bshp - Bishops) insecure leader with unregulated power who also had exclusive access to the data, albeit in a very ancient - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) I call for justice for those whose human rights have been stolen. - Speech Link
2: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) In conclusion, I believe in human rights, equality and dignity for all. - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) Just this week, I supported the Coed Caerdydd project and planted trees in a bid to make Cardiff a carbon-neutral - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Renewable Energy Providers: Planning Considerations - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) There were no trees any more. - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) We recognise that legal and planning processes are taking place, so the Government’s powers to intervene - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) Our cause, rather like the ancient people who danced for the rain or worshipped the sun, is the weather - Speech Link
4: Alan Whitehead (Lab - Southampton, Test) balance in which the planning system recognises what most of the public want, while ensuring proper rights - Speech Link
5: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) We have recently consulted on changes to permitted development rights for both domestic and non-domestic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Mon 23 Oct 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) part virtually in its committees, why is it not possible for local democracy to have the same rights? - Speech Link
2: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) As the noble Lord knows, the Government wish these provisions to have legal effect in time for the local - Speech Link
3: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) woodland provisions because there is currently no protection for ancient woodland whatever.I should - Speech Link
4: Lord Cromwell (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It is not an add-on; it is not planting a few trees in order to get planning permission. - Speech Link
5: None planning permission for development affecting ancient woodland. (2) In subsection (1) “ancient woodland - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Conference Adjournment - Tue 19 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (LAB - Walsall South) In fact, local authority tried to cut down trees, but the community fought back and that was stopped.Now - Speech Link
2: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) up-and-coming town from the control of the prior of Trentham and turned Newcastle into a borough—the ancient - Speech Link
3: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) The pressure for all London councils is how to meet their legal responsibilities and find homes for people - Speech Link
4: Nick Smith (LAB - Blaenau Gwent) Ann was an expert on the middle east and a global human rights figure. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) I am slightly concerned because the legal position is very clear: any new development built after 2009 - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pinnock (LDEM - Life peer) rainforests in the tropics in the extent of the diversity of nature that is encouraged to live among the trees - Speech Link
3: Lord Harlech (CON - Excepted Hereditary) woodland and ancient and veteran trees during the passage of the Environment Act. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None All around the world, it has been depicted in ancient rock art. - Speech Link
2: None In my view, the thirst for trophies is really a basis for bragging rights. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) That is specifically why we would not support Amendment 1.The noble Lord, Lord Trees, tried to speak - Speech Link
4: Lord Robathan (CON - Life peer) My noble friend the Minister, for whom I surprisingly have great respect, talked about dancing on a legal - Speech Link
5: Lord Roborough (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Analysis of the red list by Challender, Dickman, Roe and Hart showed that“legal hunting for trophies - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Land Use in England Committee Report - Tue 25 Jul 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Mallalieu (LAB - Life peer) Where trees are being planted on highly productive farmland—for example, as unhappily I know, down in - Speech Link
2: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) , things simply will not happen.Secondly, at least as important albeit perhaps more esoteric is the legal - Speech Link
3: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) Definitive maps of public rights of way have been compiled for all of England and Wales, except inner - Speech Link
4: Earl of Leicester (CON - Excepted Hereditary) a green cover on the soil for up to 12 months.Allied to rediscovering ancient wisdom from the agricultural - Speech Link