Speeches by Hinchliff.

“I thank my hon. Friend for her support for the red lines campaign. She is absolutely right about what makes life worth living. Investing in our country, strengthening standards and restoring our natural world will do far more to improve the lives of ordinary people than a short-sighted race to the bottom. That is the L…”

“I completely agree with my hon. Friend about the importance of protecting our curlews, and the curlew action plan is a hugely important step, which the Government should be looking at. I also wonder how long it will be before the screaming sky falls silent, as each year, fewer swifts return to grace the air above our t…”

“I completely agree with my hon. Friend. As I was saying, the ecosystem services—including water, food, clean air and critical resources—are all at risk. Even our soils, the very substance of growth, have lost around half their organic carbon, threatening the sustainability of our agriculture and our ability to keep our…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered environmental protections and biodiversity trends. It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Roger. Unfortunately for everyone involved, this will be one of my longer speeches, so I had better not take too many interventions. Let me also say at the outset that th…”

“As a plan 2 graduate myself, before the Minister proceeds will he put on the record an acceptance that, with the misstep on the tuition fee repayment level, the cat is out of the bag? We need to deal with it in this Parliament. I urge him to reject the tedious, time-wasting suggestions from the Lib Dems and get on and …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under you in the Chair, Sir Desmond. I am afraid I have been lured into making some side comments before getting into the meat of my speech. This is in relation to the point about aggregate supply and meeting the housing needs of young people. It is really important that we bring some facts to…”

“The disgraceful scandals of recent days have left what little remains of faith in our democracy hanging by a thread. One of the lessons has to be that, while inherited privilege is no basis for a second Chamber, neither is self-interested patronage by political leaders. Does the Leader of the House agree that we must e…”

“As the chair of the recently formed all-party parliamentary group for council and social housing, I welcome the report’s conclusion about the importance of boosting the supply of social housing to meet the huge demand for new, high-quality, genuinely affordable homes and to replace older, lower-standard homes that are …”

“It is an honour to serve with you in the Chair, Ms Lewell. The state of England’s woodland paints a clear picture of national decline. The elms are gone, the ash is dying and even the English oak is at risk from the existential threat of climate change. We have far less woodland cover than many of our European neighbou…”

“Okay. You have answered all my questions very clearly and simply. Back to you, Chair.”

“Okay. On that basis, then, you would not expect there to be substantial costs to be borne at any point in the pipeline around water treatment plans to upgrade them to be in line with those statutory limits.”

“The PFAS plan commits to consulting on making PFAS limits in drinking water statutory in 2026. For the sake of the record, can you confirm what estimates your Department has of the potential cost of ensuring those limits would be met?”

“Okay. Interestingly, and I promise this was not choreographed, the remainder of my questions are about drinking water.”

“Minister, before I go into my more detailed questions, I want to pick up on a trend in the discussion so far. You have made your personal commitment to this issue very clear. You spoke about not wanting our nation to be the dirty man of Europe. In a lot of the discussion we have been talking about catching up with Euro…”

“I am afraid the Minister has slightly walked into this. Previously in this Chamber, I extended an invitation to her to come and visit RevIvel in my constituency. That is a campaign to restore the Ivel chalk stream. It has a pilot project looking at taking the Chalk Streams First approach, which would potentially restor…”

“It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms Butler. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South Dorset (Lloyd Hatton) on his well-made speech opening the debate. The state of our rivers is a near-perfect metaphor for how badly we have got our priorities wrong as a society. Through a combination of carele…”

“Thank you very much, Chair. I have pupils from my constituency, so I will give my apologies and go and get some questions myself.”

“To follow up on your very useful comments there, if the Government were—as has been indicated but I accept not agreed at this point—to accept all of the recommendations in the Fingleton review, apply it more widely to infrastructure rather than just nuclear, as has also been mooted, and also were to implement the NPPF …”

“Thank you, Chair. As I was saying, we have the Fingleton review on nuclear regulation with proposals in relation to the habitats regulations, which certainly seems to me to reopen some of the major debates in relation to paying to offset damage to nature that happened during the discussions around the Planning and Infr…”

“I want to draw the discussion to a couple of other areas causing concern in the environmental sector. We have the Fingleton review on nuclear regulation. As I am sure you will know, recommendation 11 calls for changes to habitat regulations, including removing the requirement for like-for-like compensation. Recommendat…”