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 141–160 of 1,426 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “The Dutch have been doing this for years, have they not? You said earlier, “We have a lot more peat than other people”, but we do not. We have 41,000 hectares, and the Canadians have 1.1 million hectares.” | 38 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “There is a fight here with agriculture, is there not?” | 10 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “What progress have you made so far in implementing the recommendations of the lowland agricultural peat taskforce?” | 17 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “I was just coming to that.” | 6 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “Sorry, I did not realise that.” | 6 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “Apologies—yes. So the 40,000 hectares is within that time period. It is additional to the 28,000 hectares.” | 17 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “No, it does not, because it is 280,000, not 250,000.” | 10 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “Give me those figures as well, please.” | 7 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “We really do need clarity, because, if one arm of Government is saying something, and another—well, the CCC, in fairness, is not an arm of Government, but is the adviser to Government—is saying something that is so out of sync, it does not seem right.” | 45 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “Could you write to us? We do need clarity on this.” | 11 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “This is hectares of peatland restoration. This is not emissions or different calculations of it. I do not understand why the Committee on Climate Change would have said 7,943 hectares by 2030 if we have already done 28,000 hectares.” | 39 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “Sorry, I want all that you are just about to give me, but, if that is the case, why on earth has carbon budget 7 said that we would have 6,900 by now?” | 33 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “It is 280,000 hectares by 2050. It is commitment 63 of the EIP, as we know.” | 16 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “I am struggling with the figures here. The EIP—environmental improvement plan—pledged £85 million by 2030 and said that 40,000 hectares should be restored by April 2030. The nature for climate fund said that there was £50 million from that, and that it was looking to add that to the pot by 2027. Carbon budget 7 says th…” | 89 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “Is it 8% or 12% now? It used to be that 6% had been inspected in the past five years. SSSIs are, in effect, not worth the name that—” | 29 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “On-site inspections are very difficult to cover the areas. It is remote land. Since May last year, we do have the England peat map. You said there had not been mapping done, but, of course, that was done in May of last year.” | 43 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “You urged the Committee to look at the science and to look at the world as it is, not at the world that we might like it to be. We agreed that the Government had, in the past, incentivised the draining of peatlands. I think you would accept that your members did lobby heavily for them to do that, but the key thing now …” | 155 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “In that case, let us make sure that the mapping is being done that enables us to do that most effectively in the most appropriate places.” | 26 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “We must move on because the Chair did not actually allow me to ask you a question.” | 17 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1731) “Mr Gilruth, I am keen that we end up here as friends and that we get some consensus.” | 18 |