Results 21–40 of 1318 for speaker:the Earl of Caithness

Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill - Second Reading (16 Jun 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: I was told on the question of the Maasai that it also involved ecotourism.

Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill - Second Reading (16 Jun 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, this has been a fascinating debate. I have no interest to declare except that I have a passion, just as great as that of my noble friend Lady Fookes, for nature, conservation and biodiversity. As I had no knowledge of what trophy hunting was really about, I sought to educate myself over the past months. What were my conclusions? First, there is far too much focus on Africa alone....

Agricultural Tenancies - Statement (12 Jun 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, I welcome the Statement. I, too, thank my noble friend Lady Rock for her report. I do not agree with all of it—I expect that none of us does—but I agree with its general thrust. I was interested in what my noble friend the Minister said about the farm tenancy forum. I am slightly worried that it will become a talking shop. How will it work with the proposal for a tenant farming...

Financial Services and Markets Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 4 ( 6 Jun 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, I have my name to Amendment 15, so ably introduced by the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman. I thank her for her very clear exposition of it and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Young, for her little additions just to fill in some of the other parts of this important subject. I thank the Minister for her time yesterday when I came to discuss this amendment with her: it makes a lot of...

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (14th Day): Amendment 448 (22 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, I regret that my noble friend has done absolutely nothing to reassure me. He said that the reason for the clause was to set out the conditions and parameters of any review. That can be done under common law now; we do not need a piece of legislation. This clause does not alter common law or the powers of the Secretary of State in any way. Can my noble friend tell me in what way it...

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (14th Day): Amendment 448 (22 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, that does not answer my question. Could my noble friend answer my question?

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (14th Day): Amendment 448 (22 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, in what she has said. I have put my name to the opposition to this clause standing part. I declare an interest, such as it is, in that I was a chartered surveyor. It took me six years to qualify as one, and I gave up being a chartered surveyor when I was asked to join the Government in 1984. I subsequently gave up my membership of the...

Land Use Commission - Question (22 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, we welcome Defra’s appreciation of the need for land use. It has taken some years in getting there, but it appears that no other department is as keen as Defra to do this. Can my noble friend tell us a bit more about his discussions with the other departments and whether they are looking constructively at this matter?

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (13th Day): Amendment 372ZA (18 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: If I were a fisherman on one of the Dorset rivers now with the mayfly hatching, I would have caught a most wonderful trout at the end of my line. I say to the noble Baroness that I was alarmed, because I know that, in her heart of hearts, she is very supportive of this. However, her boss Keir Starmer said that he wanted to develop on green land. As my noble friend Lord Deben has just said,...

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (13th Day): Amendment 372ZA (18 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, how sensible it was of my noble friend Lord Trenchard to degroup this amendment from the previous group, which already had 29 amendments in it. This is far too important an issue to be wrapped up in a comprehensive debate. We should not be in the position of having this debate today. One of the reasons why we are is that the NRA was abolished. When we privatised water—I had the...

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (13th Day): Amendment 367 (18 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, having listened with care to what has been said on these amendments on this important part of the Bill, I will make a couple of comments. I listened with care to what my noble friend Lord Randall of Uxbridge said on habitats. These are hugely important areas. There are two points that I hope my noble friend on the Front Bench will take into consideration. The first is that land...

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (13th Day): Amendment 364B (18 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, maybe it is because it is Thursday afternoon, but I am slightly more confused now than before my noble friend gave his reply. He said that the land would be within the development plan, but he also said that it is an innovative way of identifying land for development. Those two statements do not seem to agree; there is a contradiction. I do not think that my noble friend answered my...

Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - Report (1st Day) (Continued): Amendment 47 (15 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, I am extremely grateful to all noble Lords who took part on my amendment, and those from the noble Lords, Lord Krebs and Lord Whitty, because we have had a very useful debate. I strongly agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, that the public must have confidence in our environmental laws. That is the basis of how we should go forward, and I think the Minister tried hard to...

Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - Report (1st Day) (Continued): Amendment 47 (15 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, we move from powers to revoke or replace to powers to update. I am very grateful for the support that I have got from the noble Baronesses, Lady Willis of Summertown and Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, on this amendment. I express the apologies of the noble Baroness, Lady Willis, who was in your Lordships’ House earlier this afternoon but has had to go back to Oxford. She did very...

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (12th day) (Continued) ( 3 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, I am grateful for that very full reply from my noble friend, which I will want to read, but a number of points in it concern me. I hope that she will find time for a meeting between now and further stages, because there are some quite serious issues which are unclear. My noble friend was absolutely right when she spoke about the need for the local authority to build relationships....

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (12th day) (Continued) ( 3 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, my noble friend slightly confused me when she mentioned education, health and affordable housing and then in another sentence said that education, health and affordable housing were the sorts of development which opened the door to other developments coming in. We need to look at that. Can she tell me when we will get all these updates from the Government? Will they be discussed by...

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (12th day) (Continued) ( 3 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: It is not my amendment; it belongs to the noble Lord, Lord Carrington.

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (12th Day): Amendment 292 ( 3 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: Why do we have to adjourn when we are in the middle of an important debate? For the continuity of that debate, surely if the Minister replies now, that will be fine.

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (12th Day): Amendment 292 ( 3 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: My Lords, the whole compulsory purchase issue is a complex and niche part of the law, as has been well explained in the debate today. I am hugely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Carrington, for setting out his amendment in detail. I have some interests to declare. It is 50 years—yes—since I was last involved in compulsory purchase procedures as a land agent, and the law has moved...

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (12th Day): Amendment 291 ( 3 May 2023)

the Earl of Caithness: I very much support what has been said about adaptation and drainage because of the flooding situation. I shall mention one incident to my noble friend on the Front Bench because it goes to the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock. At a development in Sherborne in Dorset—the development is now nine years old, so it was built after 2009—there have been considerable...


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