Lord Roborough (Con)

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate. I will clarify one point made by my noble friend Lord Randall. I hope no one thinks I am speaking on behalf of dev

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing these regulations. Although I am pleased to see her in her place, I wonder why they are being introduced by the Minister of State for MHCLG, when we were

At end insert “but that this House regrets that the draft Regulations will not require Natural England to take into consideration the financial viability of development and in particular other require

My Lords, it is obvious that we need more investment in reservoirs but the easier, cheaper and quicker improvement is to restore natural water storage through rewetting, riparian tree planting, de-can

My Lords, I thank the Minister for being in her place to listen to the concerns of noble Lords. These regulations relate to the Northern Ireland retail movement scheme, which was established under the

My Lords, these new powers for the EA have been described by the Government as “police-style powers”. Given that this is about enforcing the law and the EA has failed to do so, has the Minister consid