Member

The Government have kidded the public and the press that they are interested in sweeping away bureaucracy. Instead, they lard on ever more regulation and delay. So I invite Members of this House to support this amendment, in line with the judgment of our learned friends; to agree that we already have all the protections we need for Ramsar sites in the NPPF; and—here is the important thing—that the UK should be consistent with our treaty obligations and the custom and practice of all the other 172 global signatories to the Ramsar Convention from all around the world. We should not be an outlier in this, yet that is what the Government are intending by their own Clause 90.