Select Committee

The University of Edinburgh

CRG0006 - City Region and Growth Deals

Written Evidence Apr. 23 2024

Inquiry: City Region and Growth Deals
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Scottish Affairs Committee (Department: Scotland Office)

Found: We are consistently ranked one of the top 50 universities in the world in international league tables

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Grand Committee
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
Committee stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Willis of Summertown (XB - Life peer) environmental regulation currently sits with OPRED, which is part of DESNZ and is advised by the Joint Nature Conservation - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) reputation.It is important that we understand what the Bill does if we are selling our international - Speech Link
3: None environmental regulator, OPRED, was satisfied that they would not have any adverse effects or hinder the conservation - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) assessment takes place including, where necessary, public consultation and consultation with nature conservation - Speech Link

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Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Ministry of Justice

Apr. 22 2024

Source Page: Nature recovery plan summary: MOJ
Document: (PDF)

Found: We can do this by using our probation unpaid work programmes to aid national conservation efforts; modernising

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Deposited Papers

Apr. 22 2024

Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.
Document: APRIL_2024_List_of_Ministerial_Responsibilities.pdf (PDF)

Found: climate policy ● Net Zero Strategy ● Carbon budgets ● International climate finance ● Multilateral negotiations

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Lords Chamber
International Mother Earth Day - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Con - Life peer) Earth Day, and to fulfil the United Kingdom’s commitments set out in their White Paper on International - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) My Lords, the UK has previously attended UN events to mark International Mother Earth Day, recognising - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) restore biodiversity in environmentally critical landscapes, including the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation - Speech Link

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Bill Documents
22 Apr 2024 - Explanatory Notes
HL Bill 64 Explanatory Notes
Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill 2023-24

Found: Legal background 4 The Zoological Society of London is a registered international conservation charity

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Select Committee

Seventeenth Report - 2 Statutory Instruments Reported

Report Apr. 19 2024

Committee: Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)

Found: Title Draft Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment

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Parliamentary Research
Debate on ratification of the Global Ocean Treaty - CDP-2024-0079
Apr. 19 2024

Found: 1 Background 2 1.1 Marine conservation 2 1.2 The Global Ocean Treaty 3 1.3 History of ocean

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