Speeches by Hinchliff.
Every Hansard contribution by Chris Hinchliff this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 421–440 of 551 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
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| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Yes. Essentially what I am asking: in quite a broad sense we have talked already today about the lack of ecological expertise within local authorities. I am asking what more you think needs to be done to improve the implementation and enforcement of environmental policies at the local authority level.” | 50 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “That is excellent. Did someone else want to come in there for a minute?” | 14 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “It might be very interesting to get some further written evidence from you on how you think this links into devolution and local government reorganisation.” | 25 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Ms Postlethwaite, picking up on some of the points that you made, you talked about a lack of the right level of knowledge and expertise. Are there particular fields within ecology that are lacking?” | 34 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “That would be an area that you think the Government would need to look at for training?” | 17 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “You spoke about lack of knowledge from enforcement officers, so there is a training issue there as well?” | 18 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Brilliant, thank you. What more could the Government do, following on from that, to improve the recruitment and retention of ecologists and environmental experts in local government?” | 27 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Presumably that in itself is part of the resourcing problem, that there are not enough people to share the workload.” | 20 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Thank you very much. Again, it might be useful to have some further written detail on some of those points. I am sure we could talk about it for a long time. Does anyone else on the panel want to comment?” | 41 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Brilliant. My final question: would anyone on the panel like to comment on whether the recent changes to the NPPF may make it less likely that environmental policies will be adequately implemented and enforced at the local authority level?” | 39 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Can I just drill down a little bit further into that? There were two recommendations there from across the panel on strategic identification of the least sensitive sites. Where do you think the responsibility for that should lie? How do you see that being incorporated into our current ways of working at the local autho…” | 56 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “It should happen within the local planning process, yes, development.” | 10 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “A similar point: we have heard some debate during this inquiry around the proposals for grey belt. I wondered, as ecologists, what your thoughts were on that because I know I have seen in the press some debate back and forth about, “Scrubland is ugly” versus, “It is biodiverse”. Thoughts on that?” | 52 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Do you have concerns about the concept of scrub being identified as grey belt?” | 14 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “We are aware that one in four local planning authorities do not have any access to ecological expertise. Ms Postlethwaite to start with: what do you think needs to change to improve the implementation and enforcement of environmental policies alongside the rapid delivery of 1.5 million new homes?” | 48 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Yes. Essentially what I am asking: in quite a broad sense we have talked already today about the lack of ecological expertise within local authorities. I am asking what more you think needs to be done to improve the implementation and enforcement of environmental policies at the local authority level.” | 50 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “That is excellent. Did someone else want to come in there for a minute?” | 14 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “It might be very interesting to get some further written evidence from you on how you think this links into devolution and local government reorganisation.” | 25 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Ms Postlethwaite, picking up on some of the points that you made, you talked about a lack of the right level of knowledge and expertise. Are there particular fields within ecology that are lacking?” | 34 |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “That would be an area that you think the Government would need to look at for training?” | 17 |