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Baroness Fox of Buckley: ...about the issue in relation to the FCA and banking. Nobody intended that to be the outcome of PEPs, for example, and nobody intended when they suggested encouraging banks to have values such as ESG or EDI—equality, diversity and inclusion—that that would lead to ordinary citizens of this country being threatened with having their banking turned off. It is too late to then...
Lord Benyon: ....” We will also prevent “valuable soil resources from being sent to landfill” and secure “the integrity of future soil carbon codes” so that we can unlock the trillions of dollars of ESG money sloshing about in investment in the City and other investment centres to make sure that we are focusing it on our natural environment. Soil health will be fundamental to that. We want to...
Alun Michael: ...and supplies for the UK market. These figures are published annually in "Agriculture in the United Kingdom". Copies are available in the House Library or on the Defra website at www.defra.gov.uk/esg. The latest figures available are for 2002 and are provisional. A total of 1,390,000 tonnes of sugar were produced from sugar beet in 2002. The UK imported 1,309,000 tonnes of sugar and...
Yvette Cooper: ...in rural settlements and larger market towns. For further information on the classification of local authorities please see following rural definitions web link: http://statistics. defra.gov.uk/esg/rural_resd/rural_definition. asp Source: P2/NHBC New Build Completions data
Baroness Sheehan: ...government pension scheme … may not make investment decisions that conflict with the UK’s foreign and defence policy.” The crucial decision of who will make the divestment decisions based on ESG and ethical considerations, if Amendment 54 were in place, becomes more blurred. Some examples may help to illustrate the frictions that could arise. What is happening in Ukraine is uppermost...
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle: ...1 of that Act, which concerns net-zero emissions. That is an important and good way of expressing it, and I hope that we will see that eventual outcome. Amendment 19 talks about ARIA having an ESG strategy. This would not be my preferred way forward. In a way, it is better than nothing, and I see the point that was made by the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale, about lining up with other vaguely...
Elliot Morley: ...Ireland is published in Agriculture in the United Kingdom for 2001 and 2002 and in Farm Incomes in the United Kingdom for earlier years. These can be found on the Defra website at www.defra.gov.uk/esg/m publications.htm (a) Agricultural labour force as a percentage of total labour force 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 North East 1.33 1.30 1.24 1.24...
Guy Opperman: ...years the DWP has taken action to ensure that sustainable investment by pension funds is both possible and encouraged. This has been in several different ways. In 2018 we brought forward the ESG Regulations. These require trustees of schemes with 100 or more members to publish a policy on environmental considerations including climate change, and defined contribution schemes are required...
Baroness Drake: ...not be a principle in doubt or, indeed, overridden. The key issue is what “acting in savers’ best interests” means in law for fiduciaries, and the extent to which it includes stewardship and ESG engagement. If fiduciaries ignore the impacts of investment strategies on society, climate and nature, or vice versa, those major externalities will eventually impact them at a later date. In...
Lord Patten: ..., and we value the co-operation there has been in these voluntary schemes. However, I wonder whether more can be done to involve active consideration of dormant assets, using the framework of ESG—environmental, social and governance practices of all sorts—in the financial services world and its institutions. In other words, consideration of what we will do about dormant assets this...
Alun Michael: ...to rural communities and businesses. Defra provides comprehensive statistical information. The following web address will take my hon. Friend directly to the service: http://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/default.asp.
Jim Knight: ...to affect the rate of entry or exit via financial inducements is likely to be expensive and ineffectual in the longer term. (The research can be found at: http://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/reports/entrvexit/finalre port.pdf) However Defra is supporting an industry-led initiative called fresh start. Fresh start aims to secure a sustainable future for farming in England through encouraging...
Elliot Morley: ...imports of food and agricultural products between 1998 and 2000. More detailed information on food and agricultural imports, including volumes, can be found at the DEFRA website (www.defra.gov.uk/esg/work—htm/index/ trade.htm and click on the link to "UK trade data in food, feed and drink including indigenity and degree of processing"). Food and agricultural imports 1998–2000 -- Values...
Michael Gove: ...2011 report on education capital. I am also announcing the Government’s main school funding allocations for 2014-15 through the dedicated schools grant (DSG) and the education services grant (ESG). This Government’s overriding priority for capital investment is to ensure every child has a place at school. Demographic pressures have put strain on schools in many parts of the country....
Guy Opperman: ...an esteemed body, looked at this particular point on two occasions, and rejected it both times. There are reasons why. It takes the view that while it is entirely right and proper for the likes of ESG to influence investment, the individual decision-making processes of the trustees should not be influenced as is proposed by the proponents of this argument. I bow to the Law Commission on...
Baroness Penn: ...-carbon benchmarks—the “Climate Transition Benchmarks” and “Paris-aligned Benchmarks”. The EU also extended existing transparency rules to reflect environmental, social and governance, or ESG, factors. This SI fixes deficiencies that will arise in retained EU law as a result of these EU amendments. It inserts definitions for a “UK Climate Transition Benchmark” and a “UK...
Alun Michael: ...million on works on the River Hull. Defra provides comprehensive statistical information. The following web address will take my hon. Friend directly to the service: http://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/default.asp
Hilary Benn: ... Oats 59 38 A link to the publication "Agriculture in the United Kingdom" is provided which gives access to detailed information on production, supply and use. https://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/publications/auk/default .asp
Lord Nash: ...2011 report on education capital. I am also announcing the government’s main school funding allocations for 2014-15 through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) and the Education Services Grant (ESG). This government’s overriding priority for capital investment is to ensure every child has a place at school. Demographic pressures have put strain on schools in many parts of the country....
Lord St John of Bletso: ...Ghana and providing a platform for greater economic and cultural co-operation. There is a common need for many of the economies in west Africa to diversify from natural resources, and, in line with ESG, we need to be promoting responsible development in Ghana, not just in energy but infrastructure, health, fisheries, renewables, technology, telecommunications and, of course, agricultural...
