Speeches by Hinchliff.

“I have a final question for anyone on the panel who is particularly keen to answer it for me. What role should adaptation finance play in supporting both the uptake and long-term effectiveness of insurance-linked resilience measures?”

“With the Chair’s discretion, would you mind writing to the Committee with some further details on how we might join those up ?”

“I have one question for the whole panel. Experts have been suggesting that, with the looming expiry of Flood Re in 2039, we could be in a position, on the current trajectory that we have just been discussing, where without intervention we see a significant number of properties becoming uninsurable and therefore unsella…”

“How likely is that? How close are we to that?”

“Ms Dunford, to what extent are insurers linking premiums, claim support or other incentives to property flood resilience measures?”

“Can I jump in very briefly to ask what you think that grant should be increased to?”

“What barriers would you say are preventing wider adoption of these incentives? What actions or regulatory changes could help embed them more consistently across the market?”

“Are there any recommendations that this Committee could make to the Government to allow clearer price signals in the market related to those incentives, without undermining the work that Flood Re currently does?”

“Making community energy the centrepiece of the Government’s clean power plan will foster support for new schemes by putting the public in the driving seat to choose where, and at what scale, projects can fit into local landscapes. To unleash the full potential of community energy, will Ministers consider implementing t…”

“Once more unto the breach. I rise to speak in favour of amendment 68 in my name, and I hope to find as much common ground with Ministers as possible. I fully agree with the Government that we need bold reform of the planning system to tackle the housing crisis, and that is what even stronger reform of CPOs would delive…”

“In the debate today, Conservative Members have robustly defended the principle of paying landowners the uplift from the current-use value to the value that land would have with planning permission. Given how Winston Churchill said such unearned increments in land are “positively detrimental” to the general public, are …”

“My hon. Friend may have slightly confused the point of amendment 69, which is merely to address the concerns raised by the Office for Environmental Protection and to ensure that the nature restoration fund works to deliver exactly the points that he describes with the right nature protection.”

“I rise to speak in favour of the amendments in my name, particularly amendment 69, which has 53 supporters from across the House. Every family stuck on a housing waiting list, and every child suffering the insecurity of temporary accommodation, represents a moral stain on our country. I welcome Ministers’ urgency in se…”

“I rise to present a petition, alongside a corresponding online petition, signed by hundreds of my constituents in North East Hertfordshire, demanding a planning system that puts people and nature before profit. The root cause of the housing crisis is the flawed developer-led model that fails to deliver affordable homes…”

“Can I follow that up a bit? Would you have specific recommendations that you would like to see this Committee come forward with, with regards to catalysing those other nature markets for the management of these sites beyond 30 years? Just to clarify, from what you have said just now it does not sound like you have conc…”

“Earlier in May our Committee published “The role of natural capital in the UK green economy” report, in which the Committee highlighted that it is unclear how biodiversity net gain assets are to be maintained for the 30-year time period and who, in practice, should be responsible for their maintenance, particularly bey…”

“Ms Toovey or Mr King, do you have any thoughts on what would happen or what should happen if your company in the future is no longer able to manage your BNG initiatives?”

“Ms Toovey or Mr King, do you have any thoughts on what would happen or what should happen if your company in the future is no longer able to manage your BNG initiatives?”

“Either.”

“Can I just ask for clarity specifically on that? Would you say that the maintenance of ELM’s funding is crucial for protecting those biodiversity net gain sites in the long term beyond the 30 years? I want to make sure that I understand that correctly.”