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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Pension Schemes Bill

"Before the Minister moves on, entry is essential to innovation. The idea that the big firms or any regulators are going to be able to decide the right path for the innovative future is picking winners, and it does not work in my humble business experience...."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Pension Schemes Bill

"My Lords, I have three very simple questions. First, why in some areas is the delegated legislation by negative resolution and in some cases by affirmative resolution? In Clause 49, regulations under subsections (1)(b) and (6)(a) are by negative resolution, as are some in Clause 50. I would just like …..."
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Division Vote (Lords)
3 Feb 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context
Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 140 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 178 Noes - 140
Division Vote (Lords)
3 Feb 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context
Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 133 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 176 Noes - 132
Division Vote (Lords)
3 Feb 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context
Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 186 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 295 Noes - 180
Written Question
Recycling
Friday 30th January 2026

Asked by: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 14 January (HL Deb col 1726), what assessment they have made of the impact of a robust household waste recycling system on reducing waste crime; and what steps they are taking towards a clear, simple and effective recycling system for household and commercial waste.

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Defra is conducting the Resources and Waste Policy Programme in England Evaluation, which includes the Simpler Recycling policy. In respect of waste crime, the evaluation work will look at the impact that our reforms to the Carrier, Broker, Dealer and Waste Permit Exemption regimes, and the introduction of Digital Waste Tracking, will have in that area. The evaluation launched in February 2022 and is due to deliver analysis across the impacts and economic evaluation strands by Spring 2029. This will look at progress across relevant outcomes including a reduction in waste crime.

The Simpler Recycling reforms will ensure that across England, people will be able to recycle the same materials, whether at home, work or school.

Every household and workplace (businesses and relevant non-domestic premises like schools and hospitals) across England will be able to recycle the same materials in the following core waste streams: metal, glass, plastic (including cartons), paper and card, food waste, and garden waste (for households only).

These reforms will make recycling easier and ensure there is a comprehensive, consistent service across England. This will reduce confusion with recycling to improve recycling rates, and with the other collection and packaging reforms will support the use of more recycled material in the products we buy, and the growth of the UK recycling industry.

Simpler Recycling will be implemented as follows:

  • Simpler Recycling has now come into effect for all workplaces with 10 or more full-time equivalent employees in England. This requires workplaces to separately recycle dry mixed recycling (plastic, metal, glass), paper and card, and food waste

  • By 31 March 2026, local authorities will be required to collect the core recyclable waste streams from all households in England. This includes introducing weekly food waste collections for all homes, unless a transitional arrangement applies (a transitional arrangement is where a local authority has agreed a later implementation date set in regulations).

  • Micro-firms (workplaces with fewer than 10 employees), have until 31 March 2027 to comply, and plastic film collections from all households and workplaces will also be required by then.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Business Rates

"My Lords, here we are again, discussing yet another U-turn when the Government conclude, after public outrage at an announcement that they have made and after some tardy reflection, that perhaps they did not get matters right first time. What is offered here is not merely tardy but inadequate. It …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Business Rates

"My Lords, the Official Opposition have actually come forward with plans for the high street, which we would be very glad to share with the Minister as he does his high street review. I think we should have not only Lib Dem ideas but Conservative ideas. We have a new …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) Regulations 2025

"I was thanking the Minister for his response to the scrutiny committee’s concerns. I also thank the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, for her well-informed insights, as usual, and her correct reference to risk. I very much look forward to the Minister’s response on that point.

While the Official Opposition are …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) Regulations 2025

"My Lords, as we move forward in an age of rapid technological change, it is right that we legislate to keep pace. This statutory instrument is, in many ways, an example of how Parliament can embrace that change. I thank the Minister for setting out how the regulations will work …..."
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