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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 08 Feb 2017
Imports: Vegetables

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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 16 Jan 2017
Brexit: Fisheries (EUC Report)

"My Lords, I congratulate the sub-committee on an excellent and very interesting report and welcome, in particular, the opening remarks of noble Lord, Lord Teverson, about the opportunity that this represents and about the need to manage being crucial to delivering an improved fisheries policy.

It is worth starting with …..."
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Written Question
Hen Harriers: Conservation
Thursday 17th September 2015

Asked by: Viscount Ridley (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)

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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, of the 12 hen harrier nesting attempts in England in 2015, how many of (1) the six failed nests, and (2) the six successful nests, were on land in an area where the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds had primary control over access to the nests.

Answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble

The table below sets out monitoring arrangements and outcomes for the 12 hen harrier nesting attempts in England in 2015.

Nest

Landowner

Nest monitored by

Outcome

Notes

1

Private landowner

Local raptor workers

Chicks Fledged

2

Private landowner

Local raptor workers

Chicks Fledged

3

Natural England

Natural England

Chicks Fledged

4

Forestry Commission

Forestry Commission/

RSPB/Natural England

Chicks Fledged

5

Forestry Commission

Forestry Commission/

RSPB/Natural England

Chicks Fledged

6

United Utilities

RSPB

Chicks Fledged

7

United Utilities

RSPB

Nest failed

Male disappeared

8

United Utilities

RSPB

Nest failed

Male disappeared

9

United Utilities

RSPB

Nest failed

Male disappeared

10

United Utilities

RSPB

Nest failed

Male disappeared

11

United Utilities

RSPB

Nest failed

Predation

12

RSPB

RSPB

Nest failed

Male disappeared

Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 04 Mar 2015
Single Use Carrier Bags Charges (England) Order 2015

"My Lords, I want to make a couple of quick points and press a couple of questions similar to ones that have already been made. What we are talking about is known in economics as a Pigovian tax. I know this is not a tax but Pigovian taxes are intended …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Feb 2015
Deregulation Bill

"My Lords, I have great sympathy with what the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, said about the need for people to feel safe in taxis, and with what the noble Lord, Lord Harris of Haringey, just said. However, I do not believe that the clauses weaken these aspects of the Bill. …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 08 Jan 2014
Peatlands

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 08 Jan 2014
Peatlands

"My Lords, is the Minister aware that it is not only in this country and not only with wind farms that some renewable energy projects are proving to be worse for carbon emissions, because of their effect on peat? For example, a study from Leicester University showed that biomass production …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 26 Nov 2013
Bovine Tuberculosis

"My Lords, I declare an interest as somebody who has just sold a much loved White Park bull from Northumberland to Gloucestershire, where it promptly got TB and died. The lesson I have learnt is that in future I am going to use artificial insemination instead so as not to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 26 Jun 2013
Genetically Modified Crops

"My Lords, can my noble friend explain why, for 20 years, a group of environmental activists has been allowed to deny the British consumer choice in this matter: the choice to buy GM crops if they prefer them because they think they are good for human health and the environment?..."
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