Speeches by Hinchliff.

“It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Desmond. I declare an interest as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on council and social housing. I congratulate the hon. Member for Wells and Mendip Hills (Tessa Munt) on securing this very important debate. On a personal basis, a debate on national planni…”

“I agree with those concerns. As I understand it, many of the applications for grey belt are in fact on greenfield sites, and that needs to be addressed. For all its labyrinthine processes, the NPPF makes a mockery of local democracy, which breeds disillusion and contempt for politics in this country. The system we have…”

“T7. Our NHS is heavily reliant on penicillin-based antibiotics for many of its core functions, but close to 90% of global manufacturing capacity of an essential component of those antibiotics is now concentrated in China. The risks to our NHS are obvious. What steps are Ministers taking across Government to reduce our …”

“I rise to present a petition alongside a corresponding online petition signed by hundreds of my constituents in North East Hertfordshire calling to ban housing developers from donating to political parties. Developers are some of the largest donors in politics, pouring in massive sums to tilt the planning system ever f…”

“Our best hope in the fight to restore our environment is this country’s nature-loving public, but many across the House will be aware of the recent example of the Environment Agency threatening to take people to court for trying to clean up their dying river. What steps will the Minister take to ensure that the Environ…”

“You have set me up perfectly for my next question. The biodiversity national security assessment cites the Amazon rainforest as one of the most critical ecosystems for us in terms of its role in food production and weather cycles, but the UK is yet to make a contribution to the Tropical Forest Forever Facility. Norway …”

“I am aware of time, so I will try to go quite quickly, and I will come back to private finance in a moment. On this issue of a new approach to how we use public finance to protect global biodiversity, Baroness Chapman described the decision to drop the nature sub-pledge under ICF4 and move instead to an approach that s…”

“There is something like a $700 billion annual biodiversity funding gap globally—obviously, that is not exclusively to be met by this country. The Cali Fund was intended to be a way of getting private finance to fill some of that gap. Can you confirm to the Committee how many donations the Cali Fund has received so far …”

“I apologise in advance, Ms McVey, that I need to go to a Select Committee so cannot attend the full debate. My hon. Friend is, as usual, right about everything. Does he agree that public resistance to the construction of data centres is due not just to concern about the impact on the environment, but to underlying publ…”

“Thank you, Minister, for coming in front of us today. Not all the questions I am going to ask are uniquely your responsibility, but you are the Minister in front of us today. I will also be looking for some answers from Ms Eales as well. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse and irreversible loss of func…”

“Maybe we can provide an example here. It is useful that you mentioned the defence investment plan. People will not be able to see this, but there is a debate going on right now in the main Chamber about rearmament and warfighting readiness. We are debating putting billions of pounds into military hardware, yet in the c…”

“Do you believe that the Treasury is the blocker to this?”

“All the military hardware we can buy will not serve its purpose if our nation goes hungry, should our reliance on food imports be turned against us. What reassurances can Ministers give that they are leading conversations across Government to ensure that if push comes to shove, the UK has the necessary food security to…”

“We have already seen the vulnerability of our economy to global supply chain shocks from the impact of wars on food, fuel and fertiliser prices, but scientists now warn that we are likely to be heading into a super El Niño—a global heating event that will trigger extreme weather around the world, threatening fish stock…”

“2. What assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the adequacy of the security of UK supply chains.”

“I have two quick questions to take us back to the discussion on water. I accept what has already been said about the technological innovations that have been made there, but it is worth setting out the context of people’s concerns about this country heading towards water bankruptcy and a deficit of 5 billion litres a d…”

“Thank you. That was a very useful and clear answer. Picking up on what was said earlier, where data centres do have water demand, that often peaks at the same time as water demand generally is peaking, when it is hottest. In the probably inevitable circumstance where water runs short in a particular area and water comp…”

“Does anyone else want to comment?”

“So you are optimistic that we can avoid it. Mr John, do you want to add anything?”

“I suppose I was not asking whether we should put a moratorium on data centres, but whether there ought to be regulations in place to say that in periods of extreme water stress—and this is already happening; the taps in my constituency went off during the brief heatwave in May—we prioritise the public ahead of business…”