Speeches by Gardiner.

“A wet year.”

“In effect, you said that perhaps it is at different levels, all three, but principally you focused on the second—somebody else getting an unjust cut of what would rightfully be due to the farmers. What regulatory action do you recommend that Government should take in order to address that specifically, that this Commit…”

“Ms Hammond, you used the key word earlier: “externalities”. The question that all this revolves around is who pays for the depletion of public goods, which are those externalities? On the one hand, it could be the person who pollutes, on the other hand it could be the public, or under an ecosystem services payment sche…”

“You posed the question, quite rightly, of how will the farmer or landowner derive an income after 30 years or, with the SANGS, 80 years. How do we think of this as increasing our stock of natural capital as a country, which benefits everybody, but also recognising that there are people, some of them farmers and landown…”

“Ms McGavin, in introducing the National Wealth Fund and the transition that you have made from the National Infrastructure Bank, you spoke of broader capital from Government. What did you mean by that?”

“Yes. We are still adopting a model that says our economy has different sectors and one is nature, whereas in fact it is the other way around. Nature undergirds the entirety of our economy, whether we talk about the financial economy and the return the Treasury wants on it. I wonder. Dr Plumpton, the Green Alliance has …”

“Thank you for allowing this urgent question, Mr Speaker. Since the fall of the previous Government in August, Bangladesh has seen more than 2,000 incidents of violence, most of which have been targeted against the minority Hindu community. Hindus make up less than 10% of the population of Bangladesh. As my hon. Friend …”

“It is clear that my right hon. Friend inherited a chaotic immigration situation from the last Government, and I commend her on the work she is doing. She rightly focused on international co-operation, but principally on removals. Does she accept that, in a world as interconnected as ours, migration can no longer adequa…”

“(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs if he will make a statement on the situation in Bangladesh and recent attacks on the Hindu community there.”

“Will my hon. Friend give way?”

“I have huge respect for the hon. Lady for the way that she has conducted this debate over the last few weeks. My concern is that she has focused today on the individual and the individual choice, but we are here to legislate for society as a whole. In legislating, what we are saying if we pass the Bill is that it is ok…”

“I think Hansard will record that the right hon. Gentleman mentioned that himself in his opening remarks. Overfishing means that the stock is driven down even further. There is no cure to a collapsed stock that involves continuing to overfish. The Celtic sea cod stock has declined by 95% since 2012, but last year the to…”

“I am, of course, well aware that it is headline advice and that other things come into play, but as the right hon. Gentleman himself mentioned in his opening remarks, the things that come into play—I think he called them the nuances—are often political—”

“I am delighted that I sat down to receive my hon. Friend’s intervention because she is entirely right. What she said goes to the remarks made by our hon. Friend the Member for South East Cornwall (Anna Gelderd) who, because of illness, is no longer in her place. She made a point about ensuring that consultations happen…”

“I agree with the right hon. Gentleman, and I thought that his points on visas were well-made, but it is important that we put safety at the forefront. Paradoxically, the common denominator that runs through every report is that the crew involved had all attended courses and attained the required safety and training cer…”

“I am sorry if I have given the hon. Gentleman the impression that I think fishing communities would be against this; I do not think that. That is precisely why I welcome the remarks of my hon. Friends the Members for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes and for South East Cornwall about the importance of consultation. Look at…”

“I am delighted to agree with the right hon. Gentleman, who chairs the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. It also adds grist to the mill of the five-year approach, but we perhaps need to be careful. It is perfectly reasonable to move to a five-year approach, but it would not necessarily immediately lead to u…”

“Before the Minister does that, could he look at what we might learn from the American fish management plans, which are gold standard and have had the clear management objectives that, I am afraid, many of ours lack?”

“The hon. Gentleman missed out the United States of America from that list.”

“Does the Minister actually believe that the discard ban is being observed? If he has doubts about that, would he agree that ensuring there are onboard cameras and monitoring is the best way to put an end to that element of illegal fishing?”