Speeches by Gardiner.
Every Hansard contribution by Barry Gardiner this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 481–500 of 1,536 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “I have asked very specific questions and, with respect, you are not giving me very specific answers.” | 17 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “I did not feel that we got real clarity from what you said. You explained that, as part of the DCO, you employed consultants and they prepared the scheme and established the criteria for the planting. You then said why it had gone wrong. You did not say whether the experts whom you involved got it wrong. Did they not u…” | 139 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “They do not even have permits.” | 6 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “Given that we have to write a report with recommendations to Government, should we recommend that there is greater enforcement of those periodic reviews of permits by the new super-environment agency that is going to emerge after Cunliffe?” | 38 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “It does not facilitate the natural woodland regeneration, does it?” | 10 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “My point was that, because of the transactional nature of it, they are less likely to go for that option.” | 20 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “It has been said that BNG does not sufficiently incentivise the restoration or improvement of ancient woodland. The BNG is a transactional process and therefore may favour simple solutions, such as planting hundreds of saplings. Is that a fundamental flaw in BNG right at the beginning?” | 46 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “Mr Martin, is there anything you would like to add about the way in which this is being delivered?” | 19 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “It is interesting. I was with the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management last night and it was saying that it was more than a fifth; they can access expertise, but in terms of the designated skills base within the organisation it is only a third. Of course, if you are pulling it in from the outside…” | 133 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “Tell me this. What resource or skills base do the local planning authorities have in order to ensure that all those conditions, which you and Mr Martin have outlined are critical to the establishment and growth through that first five-year period, when they are vulnerable, to maturity, are met? What resources do the pl…” | 60 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “Sorry; I do not want to cut you off but I want to understand. Is it because they are not actually doing what they said they were going to do in the first place, or is it that they tried to do it, but did it unsuccessfully? What is actually going on here? Is it sleight of hand, or just failure?” | 61 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “Yes, I have seen that. Very good. Let me turn to Ms Hillier. I wanted to find out why it is that the delivery rates for BNG are so poor. We have heard that developers are failing to deliver on their commitments. I want to ask you why that is happening. Is it that they are sowing things incorrectly? Is it, as we have he…” | 95 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “But you are taking the seedlings from it and growing some from that.” | 13 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “So 47% of the ecological mitigations were missing.” | 8 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “It was my favourite tree in the entire world.” | 9 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “I know.” | 2 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “Absolutely, Chair. We are talking about trees dying. Mr Martin, why could you not keep the stone pine alive at Kew?” | 21 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “Indeed; that is why I am asking the question. Did the experts put into the brief that it would be best to try to do this planting in the autumn or the spring rather than in the heat of the summer?” | 41 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “No, I am talking about the recommendations that this Committee should make. You want to get it right. That is what you are assuring us of. You want to get it right and you are taking steps now to do that. If you are confident in what you are doing, it should be perfectly natural that you say, “Let’s be transparent. Let…” | 80 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1284) “Would you support this Committee making a recommendation that there should be regulatory monitoring of your outflows?” | 17 |