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Westminster Hall
Biodiversity Loss - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) Raw sewage continues to pour into our waterways, including for more than 4 million hours last year, according - Speech Link
2: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) The Environment Act also includes the toughest rules ever to bear down on the pollution of our rivers - Speech Link
3: Alistair Strathern (Lab - Mid Bedfordshire) Our rivers alone have seen 778 sewage spills in the past year, and our farmers have been let down by - Speech Link
4: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield, Hallam) monitoring the health and biodiversity of the river, which is unfortunately blighted by a number of storm sewage - Speech Link
5: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) The natural environment can play a huge role in climate adaptation, with things like rewilding rivers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None into our rivers, those at the helm of large companies that engage in such wrongdoing rarely face any - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) That company spilled sewage 97,000 times for almost 700,000 hours. - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) It has a power to fine, and there can be convictions for polluting rivers and coastal waters, where it - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Artificial Light and Noise: Effects on Human Health (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Thu 09 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Krebs (XB - Life peer) It is better to stop sewage being released into rivers than to try to clean up the rivers afterwards. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) Two projects near his constituency—the Cheshire Wildlife Trust and the Mersey Rivers Trust—are involved - Speech Link
2: Mike Penning (Con - Hemel Hempstead) In another part of my constituency, the River Ver has been flooded with sewage yet again. - Speech Link
3: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) Sewage has been discharged into our rivers for 3.6 million hours, including the River Thames in my constituency - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) They might also like to hear about otters returning to our rivers, about saving red kites by protecting - Speech Link
5: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) Labour’s plan and make water bosses personally criminally liable, so that if they keep illegally dumping sewage - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 08 May 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) What discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on the biodiversity of Welsh rivers and streams - Speech Link
2: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) Water is a devolved matter in Wales, and therefore rivers and streams in Wales are the responsibility - Speech Link
3: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) The average number of sewage spills per outflow is 38; in England, it is 23. - Speech Link
4: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) Untreated sewage was pumped into English waterways for more than 3.6 million hours last year, and into - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Management of Hedgerows (England) Regulations 2024 - Wed 08 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) The recent, record-breaking sewage statistic showed that raw sewage was swilling into our rivers, lakes - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
War in Gaza - Tue 07 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) The first thing that aid workers returning from Gaza talk about is the smell, because there are rivers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 01 May 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) What discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the biodiversity of Scotland’s rivers and - Speech Link
2: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) The Scottish Government are responsible for biodiversity in rivers and streams in Scotland, not the United - Speech Link
3: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) Is it not the truth that Scottish waters, streams and rivers are purer and cleaner because the Scottish - Speech Link
4: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) According to a recent report, untreated sewage has been released into Scottish waters and seas more than - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Water Companies: Licence Conditions - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Watts (Lab - Life peer) so much need for investment and given their poor performance and the way that they are polluting our rivers - Speech Link
2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) enhanced to ensure the level of investment required to improve water and address the issues related to sewage - Speech Link
3: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) The Government have put a huge effort into monitoring the level of sewage and other pollutants going - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sewage Pollution: Lakes and Rivers - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Quin (Lab - Life peer) pollution in lakes and rivers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) Reducing sewage pollution in British lakes and rivers remains a top priority for the Government. - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) works work properly and the sewage does not enter lakes, rivers and the sea? - Speech Link
4: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) was going into our rivers, lakes and other waterways. - Speech Link