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 1,201–1,220 of 1,426 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Are you surprised, Dr Schratzberger, that the Government have not fulfilled the commitment that, by the end of last year, they would have completed the process of introducing the additional protections that they were going to in the marine protected areas that have not had those apply to them? I cannot remember the exa…” | 68 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “In other words, what you are actually doing is putting a seal of guarantee on a line on a map, but what most people in the international community, and most of our constituents, think we are doing when we sign a treaty that says 30 by 30—it says 30% will be protected—is actually protecting them. Now, I am a huge believ…” | 147 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Professor Webb said something about dispute settlement, and it just made me concerned that there might be an exposure there.” | 20 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Is it not ratified by the United States?” | 8 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Thank you very much. Sorry to interrupt.” | 7 |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 551) “Therefore, would it be something that you might see this Committee making a recommendation about in terms of restricting the way that we allow ISDS mechanisms to be incorporated in treaties that we conclude?” | 34 |
| 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 Webb said something about dispute settlement, and it just made me concerned that there might be an exposure there.” | 20 |
| 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) “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 |
| 18 Dec 2024 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 501) “For the TNFD being docked into it.” | 7 |
| 18 Dec 2024 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 501) “It is very clear that there is a vacuum that everyone has rushed to fill, and it has not created the standards that we want. So this international congregation of it, and facilitating that certainty about certification, enforcement and how that happens is really important.” | 45 |
| 18 Dec 2024 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 501) “Right, that is the trap I wanted to see if you would fall into.” | 14 |
| 18 Dec 2024 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 501) “I am joking, of course. Our Environment Act has very clear targets in it. Many of those targets are different from the targets in the global biodiversity framework. I am interested in how you are going to get real alignment between the targets that we have set in statute and the international framework. It is great tha…” | 139 |
| 18 Dec 2024 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 501) “Sure.” | 1 |
| 18 Dec 2024 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 501) “May I ask, before you do, whether Ms Edmundson has anything to add to that? I understand you are in charge of the whole green finance part of the Department.” | 30 |
| 18 Dec 2024 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 501) “Of course, Ministers decide.” | 4 |
| 18 Dec 2024 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 501) “Is there a timescale?” | 4 |