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Grand Committee
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Committee stage - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None artificial intelligence. - Speech Link
2: None artificial intelligence. - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) artificial intelligence. - Speech Link
4: None artificial intelligence. - Speech Link
5: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) artificial intelligence. - Speech Link
6: None of State to publish a review of the impact of infant formula sale and promotion legislation. - Speech Link
7: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) to undertake a review of the operation of both the primary or original point of sale and the secondary - Speech Link
8: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) for the sale of tickets. - Speech Link


Written Question
Grass: Plastics
Tuesday 9th May 2023

Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to (a) ban the sale of or (b) tax artificial grass which is installed in commercial and domestic properties.

Answered by Trudy Harrison

While the use of artificial grass is not a criminal activity and we have no plans to ban, limit or tax its use, the Government does recognise that, in itself, artificial grass has no value for wildlife. Its installation can have negative impacts on soil health, biodiversity and drainage for flood prevention or alleviation if installed in place of natural earth or more positive measures, such as planting flowers or trees or providing natural water features. The Government has not assessed the potential costs and opportunities of restricting the use of artificial grass products.

Improving biodiversity is a key objective for the Government. We prefer to help people and companies make the right choice, rather than banning or taxing items outright. For example, the Environment Act 2021 introduced a number of policies that will support the restoration of habitat. Biodiversity Net Gain, Local Nature Recovery Strategies and a strengthened biodiversity duty on public authorities will work together to drive action, including to create or restore habitats that enable wildlife to recover and thrive, while conservation covenants will help secure habitat for the long term.


Deposited Papers
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Oct. 23 2009

Source Page: Evaluation on aminopyralid (agricultural uses). Part of the evaluation of provisionally approved products for the Food and Environment Protection Act, 1985, part III, plant protection products regulations 2005. Oct 2009. Incl. appendices. 119 p.
Document: DEP2009-2602.pdf (PDF)

Found: Part of the evaluation of provisionally approved products for the Food and Environment Protection Act


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Mon 11 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) for fire defect costs, and I say to the Government that the artificial distinction of 11 metres is unjustified - Speech Link
2: Gareth Johnson (Con - Dartford) Residents look out of their window and see the grass on one side of the estate being mowed by one company - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) , that promise should be honoured, particularly on the sale of new-build flats. - Speech Link
4: Samantha Dixon (Lab - City of Chester) tin and ban the sale of new leasehold houses, as the Government originally promised, because it contains - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Fans will also be consulted should their local stadium ever be put up for sale. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) rights to the grass-roots game. - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Far from weakening data rights, as we move into the age of the internet of things and artificial intelligence - Speech Link
4: Earl of Devon (XB - Excepted Hereditary) California.The issue du jour is artificial intelligence, highlighted by the earlier Question of the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) to restrict the sale and marketing of vapes to children. - Speech Link
2: Maggie Throup (Con - Erewash) One of his flagship recommendations was to raise the age of sale. - Speech Link
3: Ian Lavery (Lab - Wansbeck) the Tories simply do not care.This issue cannot continue to be kicked into the long grass. - Speech Link
4: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) The Government are kicking the ban on no-fault evictions into the long grass yet again, despite tens - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Water Companies: Executive Bonuses - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) the Government to empower Ofwat to ban the payment of bonuses to water company executives whose companies - Speech Link
2: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) the Government to empower Ofwat to ban the payment of bonuses to water company executives whose companies - Speech Link
3: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) The wildflowers and grass of the clifftops offer peaceful views, with easy access to Blackhall’s beach - Speech Link
4: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading East) colour that one would see in an artificial and lifeless place, completely out of place next to the willows - Speech Link
5: Imran Hussain (Lab - Bradford East) They should start by empowering the water regulator, Ofwat, to ban the payment of bonuses to the bosses - Speech Link
6: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) waste water treatment works; banning the sale of wet wipes; proposals for new restrictions on forever - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) There is a broken promise to renters, with the ban on no-fault evictions kicked into the long grass in - Speech Link
2: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) Despite the Prime Minister’s much-vaunted summit, there was no regulation of artificial intelligence - Speech Link
3: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) coalition to deal with things such as the regulation of artificial intelligence, but using that summit - Speech Link
4: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) do: ban the sale of new leasehold flats as well as houses, and fix the mess in the leasehold system - Speech Link


Departmental Publication (Policy and Engagement)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Feb. 09 2024

Source Page: Government response to House of Lords, Horticultural Sector Committee - report of session 2022 to 2023
Document: Government response to the House of Lords, Horticultural Sector Committee - report of session 2022 to 2023 (PDF)

Found: Government response to House of Lords, Horticultural Sector Committee - report of session 2022 to 2023


Select Committee
UK Government response to Lords Horticultural Sector Committee report-Session 2022-23

Government Response Feb. 12 2024

Committee: Horticultural Sector Committee

Found: proposed ban could unintentionally cause environmental damage stemming from use of alternative growing