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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2014
Plastic Bags

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2014
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"May I say first that the Minister has been most gracious in allowing so many interventions? Perhaps that was more a function of the attendance at the debate, but it was very helpful in flushing out some of the issues.

We have had a very wide-ranging debate. I am particularly …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2014
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"I am not sure whether I am able to take interventions in the summing-up. I shall take guidance on that from you, Mrs Brooke...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2014
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"I take note of what my hon. Friend says, and I was about to come on to that point. Before I do, it remains for me to say that the Environmental Audit Committee report was an informed one, and if our recommendations had been adopted, they would have resulted in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Oct 2014
National Pollinator Strategy

"I was going to make a long speech, but in view of the time left and all that has been said, I will condense the important points that arise—as the hon. Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton), whom I congratulate on securing the debate, said—from the work done by …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Oct 2014
National Pollinator Strategy

"I would say this, wouldn’t I, but the work record of the worker bees on the Environmental Audit Committee is second to none. It is worthy, perhaps, of a detailed meeting with the Minister before he finalises and signs off the national pollinator strategy.

We still have concerns, some of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Oct 2014
National Pollinator Strategy

"The Chair of the Health Select Committee makes a valid point. It is about all aspects of research, as well as peer review; and it is about commercial confidentiality, which business says prevents much of what we want to see in the public domain from being examined so that it …..."
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Written Question
Local Nature Partnerships
Monday 1st September 2014

Asked by: Joan Walley (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent North)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding her Department allocated to local nature partnerships in 2013-14 and to which projects.

Answered by George Eustice

Defra did not allocate any funding to Local Nature Partnerships (LNPs) in 2013/14. In 2011-13 Defra, together with Natural England, provided a one-off £1 million capacity building fund for LNPs. Ongoing funding was not part of the envisaged model for LNPs. In 2013/14 the Environment Agency funded a small number of LNPs, the details of which are listed in the attached table. The Environment Agency has also contributed to other partnership projects where the LNP is a partner but not the direct recipient of its funding. These are not included in the attached table.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 08 May 2014
Overseas Territories (Sustainability)

"I start by thanking the Liaison Committee for making it possible for this debate to take place in Westminster Hall. The background to it is the Rio+20 conference, all the work being done on climate change and the importance of Her Majesty’s Government embedding sustainability into all policies, right the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 08 May 2014
Overseas Territories (Sustainability)

"We believe that the Aarhus convention is the starting point and should apply. We hope that our recommendations will help the Government to work with the overseas territories to find a way to do that. We want clarity, which is necessary above all else.

A key strategic recommendation in the …..."
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