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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Catchment Based Approach’s Chalk Stream Restoration Strategy 2021

"To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Catchment Based Approach’s Chalk Stream Restoration Strategy 2021 and related reports from the Angling Trust and the Rivers Trust and others; and what steps they intend to take in response...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Catchment Based Approach’s Chalk Stream Restoration Strategy 2021

"My Lords, I acknowledge that the Minister has extensive connections to the chalk downlands of southern England, together with his neighbour, the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington. We are fortunate to have two such experienced and knowledgeable guardians of our treasured chalk streams in this House. I can only …..."
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Written Question
Rivers: Pollution
Tuesday 27th July 2021

Asked by: Lord Chidgey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how many times since 1 January 2010 (a) the Environment Agency, or (b) any other government agency, was alerted of a possible breach in licensing conditions for water abstraction or discharge in chalk rivers and streams within (i) the Itchen, and (ii) other chalk stream catchments, (2) the dates and locations of such possible breaches, (3) what tests were conducted in response, (4) what the results were of any such tests, and (5) what steps were taken as a result of any breaches to licensing conditions that were identified (a) to penalise the perpetrators, and (b) deter further breaches.

Answered by Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

The information requested is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 22 Sep 2020
Agriculture Bill

"My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Judd. I speak in support of these amendments, in particular, the requirement to meet environmental and other standards which are at least equivalent to, or exceed, those which apply to UK-produced agricultural goods.

Noble Lords may …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 09 Jul 2020
Agriculture Bill

"My Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 43 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, and other noble Lords, which provides for

“financial powers to develop local food strategies and infrastructure and to support small farms and/or community agricultural businesses with the purpose of …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 07 Jul 2020
Agriculture Bill

"I will speak to Amendment 83 to Clause 1, in particular the work that my noble friend Lord Greaves mentioned. I will highlight the issue of catchment areas and draw attention to the fact that, while they create great difficulty in some areas of the country, they also do so …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 01 Jul 2020
Direct Payments Ceilings Regulations 2020

"My Lords, I support the regulations in spite of their originating through Brexit, which of course I regret.

In the distant past my family invested in an agricultural engineering business in Somerset. It is long gone but there remains in north Somerset the Chidgey farm, though I have no direct …..."
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