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 1,181–1,200 of 1,426 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “It would not be a state taking a state to court; it would be a potential investor, as I understand it, taking the state to court. This has been done in a number of areas, and one of the most regularly cited is over tobacco legislation to outlaw or restrict tobacco sales within a country, which has then prompted compani…” | 92 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Professor Barnes, I will try to pick up what you have said and something that Professor Webb said earlier. Under the interstate dispute settlement procedures, do any of our treaty commitments—by that I do not just mean marine treaties—enable a company or a commercial interest to take the UK to court under an ISDS proce…” | 71 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “If you look at the last marine strategic framework, I think you will find that, according to the science, you had set 15 indicators. They included metrics for birds, fish, commercial fish, pelagic habitats, benthic habitats, food webs, seals and crustaceans. Eleven of those 15 were found to be in poor condition.” | 52 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Of the UK’s waters that are highly protected. I believe it is 0.015%.” | 13 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “If you cannot verify it at the moment, could you write to us and give us any alternative figures?” | 19 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “I know I must finish, Chair. Thank you for being so indulgent. I will just ask you about one last figure. We started off by talking about 30% of our oceans and 30% of the seas being protected. Do you recognise that, at the moment, the area of highly protected marine areas, which you and I agreed was what the public wou…” | 70 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Good. That is what I need. Thank you.” | 8 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “In practice, we need to start making sure that the activities that are being carried out in the marine protected areas, which are not being carried out in the highly marine protected areas, are not carried out, do we not?” | 40 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “They are what most members of the public would consider protected?” | 11 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “In practice, what is the difference between a highly protected marine area and a protected marine area?” | 17 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Well, indeed.” | 2 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “I totally agree with you. What are the strategies, though, that we could be recommending? Let me ask this in another way. What does the H stand for?” | 28 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “I asked what management strategies we could adopt within our marine protected areas that would effectively protect them. I made reference to the fact that so much of our MPAs is, at the moment, subject to bottom trawling and to dredging. I asked you to give recommendations, perhaps, that this Committee might make to Go…” | 60 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Can I ask you to focus on the strategies that we could take, and with specific reference to the ones that I have mentioned, in terms of protecting our MPAs?” | 30 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “They are more likely to take it from people like yourself than they are from people like us.” | 18 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Certainly, natural capital is something that this Committee is desperately interested in, and it would be very good to have that from you. I would like to ask you to turn your attention to the management strategies that could ensure that our MPAs were more than paper parks, and that they were actually adequately protec…” | 84 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Absolutely. You are here as scientists. That is why you are here, and that is what we respect. Thank you. WWF published its ocean report saying that the potential impact of climate change on the oceans amounted to $8.4 trillion. Is that a figure that you recognise? Are there other ways that you would like to express th…” | 68 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Could I say that you would agree that one of the recommendations that this Committee might profitably make would be for the Government to adopt a whole-site approach to marine protected areas, rather than simply looking at specific features?” | 39 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Let me try a different tack, because I am trying to get some meaty recommendations out of you. Let us look at the likely impacts of climate change on the features in our MPAs. Let me start with a preliminary question. Do you consider as a scientist that looking at our MPAs from the point of view of their features, rath…” | 73 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Let us talk about those. I am sorry, but we have limited time, and I am keen that we press on to some of the recommendations that you would like to see this Committee make in its report to Government, because that is what our session today is all about. You mentioned earlier in your response to one of my colleagues tha…” | 131 |