Speeches by Heylings.

“Thank you.”

“Then by the time you have got that and the time you are about to implement it the land is no longer available because it has been built on because we have the push for housing.”

“Am I understanding correctly that you could say that for some environmental issues that are caused by housing, a strategic approach could work—particularly with species that can easily colonise another area because they have the right habitat? But there are some species—for example, the UK bat species—that would not ea…”

“As I understand it, if we are hearing it, you say, “Great thing”, because they come in as the body. Say, “This is the problem. This is the way we can resolve it. To resolve it we would need this amount of land or this side of the rivers or this waterway because this is what will be able to do a nutrient neutrality exer…”

“It is good to know that my constituency of South Cambridgeshire is one of those areas where they are pushing within the emerging local plan for 20% biodiversity net gain just because they see that it is within the margin of error trying to get 10%, but while trying to wrinkle out the errors, obviously. We have also hea…”

“What would be your key recommendation for this Committee inquiry when it comes to what should accompany the Nature Restoration Fund?”

“Can you just explain where that could create a problem?”

“Thank you.”

“On the offsite?”

“Am I understanding correctly that you could say that for some environmental issues that are caused by housing, a strategic approach could work—particularly with species that can easily colonise another area because they have the right habitat? But there are some species—for example, the UK bat species—that would not ea…”

“While we eagerly await progress on bringing community energy into the Great British Energy Bill when it comes back to this House, will Ministers reassure community groups around the country that they will enlarge and expand the community energy fund of £10 million, which is so successful that it is currently oversubscr…”

“As we have been hearing, Dickensian conditions of cold, damp and mouldy homes are shamefully on the increase. In my constituency, more than 4,000 households are having to make that difficult decision between eating and heating because of the previous Government’s dither and delay on insulation. However, even now, local…”

“On that point, would it therefore be right to consider not overruling the Planning Inspectorate just now, in the build-up to receiving the land use framework and the strategic spatial energy plan from NESO, before making these big infrastructure decisions? We would take the public with us if they understood that we wil…”

“Part of the barrier to public acceptance of large-scale solar farms comes from a need to see a joined-up approach and that we are balancing food security and energy security. What people want to see—for example, in my constituency with the large proposed Kingsway solar farm—is the much promised land use framework and t…”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“The water restoration fund was created by the previous Government, yet not one penny of the £11 million levied on water companies between 2022 and 2023 reached any restoration of the waterways. Does the Minister agree that our precious chalk streams could be helped by the water restoration fund being continued?”

“Have you?”

“We would welcome as a Committee being able to engage in the future about how that is taken forward. Both yours and, as you say, the state of nature report and the need to say not only what the state is but what we are doing about it. You have the environmental improvement plans and the carbon budget delivery plans, sug…”

“You aspire to that, but we are taking away all the regulation and safeguards around it.”

“T10. We know that early diagnosis is critical to effective SEND provision, but there is a national crisis in the number and availability of educational psychologists. Given that Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission are jointly investigating Cambridgeshire SEND services, will the Minister meet me and the council to di…”