Speeches by Hinchliff.

“Mr French, how financially prepared for future flooding events do your business and your community feel? What additional measures or support would help to build greater financial resilience?”

“Ms Foley, I want to come back to a discussion that we had with the previous panel. At the beginning of this session, Ms Garrett said that if you do not have insurance, no one is coming. From the perspective of the Environment Agency, do we need stronger standards for sustainable development to prevent developers buildi…”

“Thank you. Professor Miller, would you like to come in?”

“I will come to you and then I will bring in Professor Miller. Ms Hicks, as has been alluded to there, the CCC is effectively saying that demand management through price controls can achieve the same outcome as constraining airport capacity growth. However, as we have heard, allowing the expansion plans for the UK airpo…”

“Thank you for an excellent recommendation to end on.”

“Let me press you on that point, Professor Miller. I was recently reading analysis that said, if the Government proceed with the expansions at Luton, Gatwick and Heathrow, for reasons of GDP and for reasons of wanting Bedford Universal Studios to happen, to meet our carbon budgets we will have to plant a forest twice th…”

“Thank you. Professor Miller, would you like to come in?”

“I will come to you and then I will bring in Professor Miller. Ms Hicks, as has been alluded to there, the CCC is effectively saying that demand management through price controls can achieve the same outcome as constraining airport capacity growth. However, as we have heard, allowing the expansion plans for the UK airpo…”

“Let me press you on that point, Professor Miller. I was recently reading analysis that said, if the Government proceed with the expansions at Luton, Gatwick and Heathrow, for reasons of GDP and for reasons of wanting Bedford Universal Studios to happen, to meet our carbon budgets we will have to plant a forest twice th…”

“Thank you for an excellent recommendation to end on.”

“I welcome the publication of the report, which reminds us all once again that nature is the true foundation of all wealth in our country and around the globe. A wide range of environmental organisations and eminent academics —including Sir Partha Dasgupta, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Cambridge,…”

“Mr Spearing and Mr Duncan, the Committee has received evidence from Professor Tait at the University of Sheffield and Dr Chapman at the University of Oxford that the revised presumption in favour of sustainable development is likely to be highly destructive for nature, and that so-called balanced scenarios result in mo…”

“Would you like to expand?”

“Mr Spearing, since your organisation also deals with brownfield, are there any recommendations you would like to see from the Committee to ensure that we genuinely deliver brownfield first?”

“Okay. I think I have reached the end of that line of questioning. To pick up on the point around brownfield, we have already heard in this discussion, Mr Thompson, how successive Governments have said they will deliver brownfield sites first, which has obvious potential benefits for minimising the loss of greenfield ha…”

“You do not agree that currently the presumption in favour of sustainable development is causing any of the issues I have just described.”

“Do you agree that the definition needs to be tightened to ensure that?”

“The new definition implies that permission will be granted unless it would cut across protections for safeguarded areas like national parks. It does not deal with the suitability of a site with regard to access to green space or car dependency, as we have already discussed. Mr Spearing, given the widespread proof that …”

“That is a different question to the sustainability and suitability of the site, though.”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that new technology should be a tool to improve lives, not just a mechanism for funnelling more wealth and power into the hands of already super-rich corporations? Does he agree that the Bill would benefit from going even further in providing greater transparency?”