Speeches by Heylings.

“Warm wishes for your birthday, Mr Speaker—and I am going to talk about warmth, as you might expect. Over the last decade, we have seen so many households living in Dickensian conditions, with dark, damp and cold homes, and having to choose between heating and eating. With the warm homes plan widely recognised as the mo…”

“I cannot help but wonder whether the Secretary of State imagined when he stood at his Dispatch Box back in 2009 that he would be back in 2025 still announcing funding for the same project. We support investment in clean, home-grown energy. Small modular nuclear reactors have real potential to reduce our dependence on f…”

“I completely concur. We appreciate the work done by my hon. Friend and others in the Bill Committee, and by tabling numerous amendments at this stage to help the Government improve the Bill. Why do we need more stringent regulations and demands on developers, rather than less? Why do we need evidence and mitigations ap…”

“I declare my interest as co-chair of the all-party group on local nature recovery. When the Government first introduced this Bill, they branded it a win-win. They said that we could build the homes and infrastructure that this country desperately needs and protect and restore nature. We have seen in my constituency—one…”

“That is interesting and leads me on to my second question. Would that be something that you would like to see the Committee recommending as a way to help smaller developments?”

“That is interesting and leads me on to my second question. Would that be something that you would like to see the Committee recommending as a way to help smaller developments?”

“Mr King, given that you were saying how difficult it is for some of the smaller housebuilders to do this, do you have any ideas of how they could be helped?”

“Is that something that is a caution as well that you would like this Committee to—”

“If I understand you correctly, you do not think that there is. You have not seen or encountered for you misuse of exemption.”

“It is almost double counting.”

“Going back to you, Ms Toovey, you seemed to be raising a red flag about any changes to further exemptions. We know that six months ago the Government’s development and nature recovery working paper said that they would commit fully implementing biodiversity net gain, but just last week we have had announced the consult…”

“Seventy-five per cent. are saying that it does not apply to them. Some of the most commonly cited are de minimis, not all of them.”

“If I understand you correctly, you do not think that there is. You have not seen or encountered for you misuse of exemption.”

“What we have heard from you is that this nascent nature market is starting to kick in, change behaviour and show promise. However, for the market to work it would need for the rules to apply to everyone. I want to explore the Committee’s concerns about potential bypassing of biodiversity net gain. In the first instance…”

“Seventy-five per cent. are saying that it does not apply to them. Some of the most commonly cited are de minimis, not all of them.”

“If over 75% of planning portal applications are saying that they are looking at exemptions, are there any that you think that the Committee should be looking at?”

“That is 40% of transactions equivalent to how much?”

“It is almost double counting.”

“Going back to you, Ms Toovey, you seemed to be raising a red flag about any changes to further exemptions. We know that six months ago the Government’s development and nature recovery working paper said that they would commit fully implementing biodiversity net gain, but just last week we have had announced the consult…”

“That is 40% of transactions equivalent to how much?”