Speeches by Pennycook.
Every Hansard contribution by Matthew Pennycook this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 781–800 of 1,934 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
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| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Not developers. Let me please reinforce this point: developers do not develop environmental delivery plans. Developers do not draft them. Natural England makes the judgment on the conservation measures required. And yes, it has that flexibility.” | 36 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Again, Ms Chowns, I think you are slightly misinterpreting how the nature restoration fund will work. It is not for developers—[Interruption.] If I could just finish the sentence, I will answer the question. It is not for developers to determine steps 1 and 2 under an EDP; Natural England will prepare the EDP. All that…” | 178 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “I would argue that we have not jettisoned it entirely—that is precisely my point.” | 14 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “I do not think that I could have been any clearer on this point. We are not going to remove the flexibility that the approach provides for in that regard. To do so would be to render the whole nature restoration fund inoperable in the way that we want to see it come forward. I appreciate that you take a principled and …” | 105 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “And the package of amendments that we have tabled, as I said, substantially allays their concerns.” | 16 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “We laboured over extensive debates in Committee, Chair, so in the interest of time, I just refer the Committee to those. Ms Chowns, you are well aware that the Bill is premised on Natural England having a degree of flexibility in how it applies the mitigation hierarchy. We would expect it to do so normally, but if it f…” | 110 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “We accept that in some respects there will be impacts. In the round is the important point, because again—I emphasise—we are moving to a strategic approach, which needs to deliver overall environmental improvements across a wider area, not on a site-by-site specific basis. That is how we get the win-win. I appreciate t…” | 75 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Again, I would not necessarily agree with your characterisation of what I said.” | 13 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “I can happily read you the quote, Ms Chowns: “even after the material amendments the Government proposes, the Bill would, in some respects, lower environmental protection on the face of the law. In the round, however, the additional safeguards proposed today make Government’s intended ‘win-win’ for nature and the econo…” | 54 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “The requirement is that Natural England brings forward environmental delivery plans that will meet the overall improvement test. My assertion is that they would not put that in front of the Secretary of State if they were not confident that it would do so.” | 44 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Just so that I am clear, you are assuming that Natural England will undertake no such surveys.” | 17 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “I disagree with your characterisation of the approach. We are moving very deliberately away from the status quo, which, as I have said, is not only stifling housing development but not delivering for nature in the way that we think it could.” | 42 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “We are very clearly moving away from a site-by-site approach to a strategic approach.” | 14 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “Do you think Natural England would not undertake that type of analysis in bringing forward EDPs? I find the lack of faith in Natural England generally in this process quite startling.” | 31 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “I struggle with your assertion that Natural England would make that judgment without availing themselves of and finding out, on the basis of scientific evidence, as we have clarified through one of our amendments—” | 34 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “No, we are moving away. In some ways, I struggle to see how people fail to grasp this. What we are doing here is to move away, very deliberately, from an approach that is based on site-by-site assessment and obligations, to a more strategic approach. It is Natural England’s job to put that plan forward and the Secretar…” | 95 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “The negative effect in what respect?” | 6 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “As I said—to re-emphasise my previous point—it is for Natural England to make a judgment, across the EDP area, on the basis of scientific evidence. I refer to some of the amendments that I have already spoken about.” | 38 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “I am more than happy to. There is the £14 million it has been allocated to start things up and the fact that the scheme runs on a cost recovery basis as it begins to get up and running. We can go into all of the resourcing questions, but at the heart of who we are asking to make these judgments about what the appropria…” | 111 |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 439) “I cannot comment on advice that I have not seen.” | 10 |