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Lords Chamber
EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement - Fri 08 Jan 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) Particular concern has been expressed by the legal profession. - Speech Link
2: Lord Mackay of Clashfern (CON - Life peer) one for the UK elements of our fisheries.The agreement affirms the sovereign rights and obligations - Speech Link
3: Lord Clark of Windermere (LAB - Life peer) On the domestic front, trees are a critical part of our rural and urban ecosystems. - Speech Link
4: Lord True (CON - Life peer) The owl of Minerva was on the coins of ancient Athens, whose attempts to impose a customs union in the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
European Union (Future Relationship) Bill
3rd reading - Wed 30 Dec 2020
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) is currently legal in the EU. - Speech Link
2: Lord Framlingham (CON - Life peer) He is a great expert on trees, and I enjoyed many conversations with him. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stroud (CON - Life peer) If we want to build our nation and to genuinely level up, it means rediscovering the ancient paths and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) I will not vote to reduce the rights for young people to study and travel abroad. - Speech Link
5: Lord Dobbs (CON - Life peer) What a year he has had, worthy of all his beloved ancient Greeks.There are those who still believe that - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
National Tree Strategy - Wed 16 Dec 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Dan Jarvis (LAB - Barnsley Central) I also thank the Petitions Committee for linking this debate to the “Legal rights for ancient trees” - Speech Link
2: Chris Clarkson (CON - Heywood and Middleton) policies and practices are put in place to protect trees and woods, to safeguard and buffer ancient woodlands - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Perhaps the need for speed can be reassessed, given the need to secure those ancient woodlands.Woodlands - Speech Link
4: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) Only 3% of our land is ancient woodland. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
High Speed Rail (West Midlands–Crewe) Bill - Tue 08 Dec 2020
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None and veteran trees and felling of trees designated as ancient woodland;(b) a comparison of actual works - Speech Link
2: Lord Haselhurst (CON - Life peer) However, ancient trees and forests, by definition, have grown without any expectation that they would - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) Ancient woodland does not necessarily mean ancient trees—they are of variable quality. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) mitigation provisions, for example using felled trees to provide dead-wood habitats. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) understands their rights and obligations. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
High Speed Rail (West Midlands–Crewe) Bill
Report stage (Hansard) - Mon 30 Nov 2020
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) I am not in any way taking sides as to the rights and wrongs of each case, because that is how the process - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (CON - Life peer) woodland and ancient or veteran trees) should be refused, unless there are wholly exceptional reasons - Speech Link
3: Lord Framlingham (CON - Life peer) our trees, and I believe that any noble Lord who really cares for our trees must support it. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) It is worth giving it a try because, if an ancient woodland can be new trees and it is all about the - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Environment Bill (Twenty First sitting)
Committee stage: 21st sitting - Tue 24 Nov 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) However, in our domestic legal system it is unnecessary to make specific provisions for fines to achieve - Speech Link
2: Richard Graham (CON - Gloucester) country operates; we believe fundamentally in freedom and an objective decision by the courts on the rights - Speech Link
3: None planting trees, but provide for the stewardship of those trees over a period of time once they have - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) I appreciate the Minister’s great enthusiasm for trees. - Speech Link
5: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) It is a brilliant thing to engage young people in nature and everything about trees, including ancient - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Environment Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
Committee stage: 17th sitting - Tue 17 Nov 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Alan Whitehead (LAB - Southampton, Test) over a period of time and how the planting of those trees leads, as those trees mature—my hon. - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) Many permitted development rights are for small-scale development or changes of use, such as modest alterations - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) Clearly, the permitted development rights extensions have been extremely controversial and a cause for - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) Some habitats include ancient woodland, with which I have a great affinity, having been chair of the - Speech Link


Grand Committee
High Speed Rail (West Midlands-Crewe) Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 1st sitting (Hansard) - Mon 09 Nov 2020
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None If you cut down 10 ancient woodlands in phase 2a, including 14 acres of ancient trees at Whitmore Wood - Speech Link
2: None It cites in addition four new funds established for planting new trees and improving existing ancient - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) assurances in relation to ancient woodlands and veteran trees. - Speech Link
4: Lord Framlingham (CON - Life peer) No amount of tree planting can possibly compensate for the loss of our ancient trees. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Report stage - Tue 15 Sep 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Greaves (LDEM - Life peer) Will tier 2 take into account rights of way improvement plans, for example? - Speech Link
2: Lord Bhatia (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Legal advice and litigation costs will have to be considered. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Devon (CB - Excepted Hereditary) This is such an important element of ancient land tenure in Devon on uplands and wetlands. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) My Lords, during the dinner break, I went for a brief walk and reflected then on what feels like ancient - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Birmingham Attacks and Extinction Rebellion Protests - Mon 07 Sep 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) , a group of 30 protesters were reported in attendance alongside 10 observers, one legal adviser and - Speech Link
2: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) We will ensure that the police have got exactly the tools they need, from a legal and practical point - Speech Link
3: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) gay rights and for women’s and racial equality. - Speech Link
4: Lee Anderson (CON - Ashfield) in protesters gluing their ears to the pavement, spraying red dye on our monuments or camping out in trees - Speech Link
5: Imran Ahmad Khan (IND - Wakefield) agenda.Her Majesty’s Government were elected with a mighty mandate from the British people to restore their ancient - Speech Link