Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay on 2 November (HL2760 and HL2728), whether the trustees of the National Heritage Memorial Fund considered the possibility of the land being compulsorily acquired by National Highways as part of the A303 scheme, prior to the award of the grant.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that the list of 1,192 affiliated and organisational groups mentioned in Special Demonstration Squad documentation, which was collated by the Metropolitan Police Service Inquiry and Review Support Command and sent to the Undercover Policing Inquiry on 10 August 2017, is released by November 2023.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Benyon on 10 November (HL2965), which stated that "this discharge is made to surface waters rather than groundwater, greatly reducing the potential risk to the drinking water aquifer", whether this means that there is still some risk from the water being (1) reused in HS2 operations, including reinsertion to the aquifer...
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to include the restoration of saltmarshes for blue carbon in the UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to monitor, understand and analyse saltmarsh habitats, including the risks to present emissions and wider ecosystem value.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to strengthen the protection and restoration of saltmarsh habitats.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government whether the water sources within the Colne Valley are now designated as having a poor chemical status because of the deterioration of the Blackford source; and on what date this designation changed.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government further to the publication of Zero Hour’s Nature and Climate Declaration on 1 November, what steps are they taking (1) to reduce the full scope of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions reductions in line with limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius, (2) to halt and reverse biodiversity decline by 2030, and (3) to deliver a more ambitious and integrated...
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to publish the UK Chemicals Strategy.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in protecting environmental and human health from the effects of chemical pollution.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) on the marine environment.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 21 October (HL2420), what is the source of contaminated water that has been identified in the cofferdams and necessitated an application to vary the Water Treatment Plant Permit.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Environment Agency’s decision to allow HS2 workers to use polymers for their work in the Colne Valley and the impact that this decision may have on the drinking water in Hillingdon and Hertfordshire, given the concern that monomer acrylamide can be residually present in the polymers.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government how much consumers were paid back from renewable energy schemes signed up to the Contracts for Difference schemes in the two quarters since April this year.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government when the National Heritage Memorial Fund grant of £800,000 was awarded to the National Trust for ensuring the protection of archaeology at Stonehenge; and when the grant was paid to the National Trust.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government what were the terms of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) grant of £800,000 to the National Trust for the acquisition of over 170 hectares of land at Stonehenge, including the land known as Bow Tie Field.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government, if the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme does go ahead, to whom would any compensatory payment be made for compulsory acquisition of land in Bow Tie Field at Stonehenge.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government what area of the 21.16 hectare Bow Tie Field at Stonehenge would have to be compulsorily acquired for construction of a new dual carriageway, eastern tunnel portals and tunnels as a part of National Highways’ proposed A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government what knowledge they had, if any, of renewable energy company Drax purchasing licences to cut down trees from primary forests in Canada to make wood pellets for its power station in Yorkshire, as alleged in the BBC's Panorama investigation, which aired on 3 October.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb: To ask His Majesty's Government, following the discovery of water pollution in the HS2 cofferdams sunk into the aquifer for the Colne Valley Viaduct construction haul road, what plans they have to call for a moratorium on the sinking of deeper piles of up to 80 metres for the Viaduct piers until the source of the pollution at the haul road pile sites has been identified.