Speeches by Heylings.

“You have mentioned how important it is to have this joined-up planning. With us being the Environmental Audit Committee, we are looking across Departments at how they are fulfilling all those environmental principles. There are tools that are key to that and one of those is the much-awaited land use framework. It was g…”

“Later this year. Are you looking at that being in conjunction with other spatial frameworks such as the spatial energy—”

“My second question is around the carbon budget, so again it links in. With the Seventh Carbon Budget that the Climate Change Committee has produced, it has shown optimistically that we can achieve our net zero targets, but it says we must work very hard because by 2040 the second largest emitter will be land use and ag…”

“In planning terms, many of us have been in planning committees so we know that there are various levels of weight, aren’t there?”

“Hopefully you are looking at the timing of this being—”

“12. What recent assessment she has made of trends in the number of school exclusions of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.”

“Too many children with SEND in South Cambridgeshire are out of school, due not only to exclusion but to the long waiting times for specialist or alternative provision when mainstream schools cannot meet their needs. I was shocked to hear about Harry, a constituent of mine who has been receiving just two hours of forest…”

“I completely agree. I emphasise what my hon. Friend the Member for Taunton and Wellington said: that is why we need tougher action on the water companies. We also need to take action on combined sewers and make improvements to the small sewage treatment works on many chalk streams, like in my constituency. However, tod…”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Sir John. I thank my hon. Friend the hon. Member for Taunton and Wellington (Gideon Amos) for securing this critical debate. While covid-19 undoubtably brought on many challenges, one positive outcome was the surge in open-water swimming. More people than ever before enjoy…”

“I wanted to clarify that there are two bodies of argument here. Given that there has been a complete lack of regulations and ways to enforce the “polluter pays” principle with water companies until now, status has been seen as one of the only mechanisms to do it. However, I would like the Minister to recognise that the…”

“It is an honour and privilege to serve under your chairship, Sir John. I thank the Father of the House, the right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh), for securing this critical debate. Together with other Members speaking today, I have just returned from a cross-party visit to Israel and the west bank—a jo…”

“So it is about how we make sure that it is fully in there and implementable and it can be a recourse.”

“It is a huge opportunity, with the fact that it could also be a national conversation. You have mentioned that perhaps one of the problems is that environment does not have a voice. This could be a start, where we make sure that it has a voice in decision making. You have mentioned the land use framework, but that is o…”

“Your report into progress towards the improvement of the natural environment is worrying for many people, because it shows that we are still off track in terms of our targets. Your final recommendation, to which you have alluded here, is about leadership in Government in taking a cross-departmental approach. As you hav…”

“We bring the conversation we are having in the CAN, which is co-benefits, as well into the nature sphere and natural capital.”

“Is it not about the fact that with the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill we were supposed to bring in the polluter pays principle? We do not have principles in UK legislation, so we could not absolutely directly bring in the polluter pays principle, so it had to come in through—”

“I thank and congratulate the headteachers and staff at Meldreth, Great Wilbraham and Stapleford primary schools in my constituency. Will the Minister explain to them how important it is that the learning that takes place in those schools will ensure the roll-out of breakfast clubs to all schools in my constituency and …”

“I extend my thanks to colleagues in the other place, the Public Bill Office staff and those in this House who served on the Bill Committee. Their efforts have been invaluable in scrutinising and refining the Bill. I support the Bill. However, the Liberal Democrat amendments seek to ensure that it delivers for both peop…”

“We will not be pressing this new clause to a vote, but the new investment and borrowing powers change the context for the 2020 memorandum of understanding. I ask for reassurance that we might seek a new memorandum of understanding between the Marine Management Organisation and the Crown Estate.”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine) for securing this important urgent question. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as the Minister has rightly said, “energy security” has been a key term in this Chamber. There are two ways of looking at energy security. First, it is about gener…”