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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 30 October 2025
Debate
Heather and Grass etc. Burning (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025Contribution
The other balancing act is risk. Here, the process seems to be in a bit of a muddle. If I read the excellent 38th report from the SLSC correctly, there seems to be an association of risk with occurrence, which of course is one aspect, but the other is significance of outcomes. Those significant outcomes are themselves a cost-benefit candidate. Taking outcomes as a metric without specifying what you mean and leaving out the risk of occurrence seems a form of risk assessment innumeracy.
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