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Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 4 September 2025

Debate

Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Contribution

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply, and I am grateful to all noble Lords for their contributions to this group. As my noble friend Lord Howard of Rising made clear, his amendment is throwing down a gauntlet to the Government. If media reports are correct, Ministers have plans to deliver reforms that will unlock housing while maintaining genuine protections for endangered wildlife. But my noble friend made it very clear that he thinks that the Government should get on with it. We believe in protecting our green and pleasant land, and we made progress on environmental issues when we were in government, but we also believe in common sense. The much-lampooned HS2 bat tunnel and the ridiculous situation my noble friend had to deal with personally are clearly perverse outcomes, and the Government should seek to resolve them urgently.

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