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Westminster Hall
Deforestation in the Amazon - Wed 05 Jan 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) does it mean by legal deforestation? - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Neil Parish) referred to the size of the trees. - Speech Link
3: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) Alongside that, his attempts to offer financial incentives to the ancient indigenous tribes to develop - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) In doing so, we must protect the natural environment and respect the rights of indigenous people. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Fines can even be lower than the £355 it costs to make a legal claim for possession through the courts - Speech Link
2: None for a road and people rally around those trees and everybody says that it is a really good thing to - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) the nation, for all of us, and to prevent the chopping down of ancient woodlands. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Land Use Framework - Thu 28 Oct 2021
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) For instance, is there peat or ancient woodland? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) and Responsibilities Statement takes a human rights-based approach to land use. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) shiniest and most uniform in size.The noble Baroness, Lady Young, has long been a champion of forestry and ancient - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) On the one hand, we want to set aside land for habitat renewal, to plant more trees for carbon sequestration - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Tue 26 Oct 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) These are equivalent to those for other independent scrutiny bodies, such as the Equality and Human Rights - Speech Link
2: None and veteran trees and ancient woodland. - Speech Link
3: None affect ancient woodland. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) action following reviews and support for the ancient woodland inventory. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Environment Bill - Wed 20 Oct 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (LAB - Leeds Central) For example, as far as I am aware, the Equality and Human Rights Commission is not subject to similar - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) and veteran trees and ancient woodland. - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) the ancient woodland. - Speech Link
4: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) If Ethiopia can plant 5 billion trees a year, including planting 350 million trees in a single day on - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Report stage - Wed 15 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) This has provided scope for differing interpretations and disagreement, as well as potential for legal - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) An ancient woodland containing trees like that is comparable to your Lordships’ House or a cathedral. - Speech Link
3: None trees and a crucial protection for the unique and much-loved ancient woodlands that we have inherited - Speech Link
4: Lord Marlesford (CON - Life peer) These woodlands and trees, whether they be ancient or veteran, are crucial. - Speech Link
5: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) consideration when making planning decision proposals affecting ancient woodland, ancient trees and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill - Mon 13 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Carrington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) But those holders were given legal rights when their applications were considered, determined and approved - Speech Link
2: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) Of course, many habitats are very long-term: ancient woodlands take 400 years. - Speech Link
3: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) That is why we have tabled government Amendment 93 to make it a legal requirement for the Government - Speech Link
4: Lord Teverson (LDEM - Life peer) trees just planted within meadows or pastural land; they can be, for instance, a grove of hazel trees - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Report stage - Wed 08 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) They may vary from ancient monuments all the way up to the present day, and include the lived environment - Speech Link
2: Baroness Parminter (LDEM - Life peer) In addition, there are all the tenanted farmers, the ancient woodlands and all the land that could deliver - Speech Link
3: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) I want to clarify for noble Lords that this legal reference to “sustainable development” encompasses - Speech Link
4: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (CB - Life peer) Victory for the OEP is rewarded only by a statement of non-compliance, which has no legal effect and - Speech Link
5: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) legal proceedings, including, for example, judicial review, as well as personal injury and clinical - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Jul 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) I begin by underlining my support for trees, tree planting and ancient woodlands for all the obvious, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) Only 7% of our landscape is covered with trees, and only 2% is ancient woodland. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) They argued that 70% of deforestation for agriculture is illegal. Yes, but 30% is legal. - Speech Link
4: Lord Oates (LDEM - Life peer) the need to protect forests or for the rights of indigenous people. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 07 Jul 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) The noble Baroness is correct to identify that there should be a legal obligation to respond for statutory - Speech Link
2: None between ancient woodlands, helping to restore ancient woodland sites and so on. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) It is now recognised as far better for it and for other dead trees to be left for beetles, insects and - Speech Link
4: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) The wide range of existing legal and planning policy protections for sites, species and habitats will - Speech Link