Results 361–380 of 2000 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Deidre Brock

Environment Bill: New Clause 21 - Habitats Regulations: power to amend general duties (26 May 2021)

Deidre Brock: Mr Speaker, you might recall that there used to be a TV game show called “Bullseye”, in which the legendary Jim Bowen consoled failed contestants with that cruellest of catchphrases, “Let’s have a look at what you could have won.” As we come to the end of the long process of this Environment Bill, a lot of folk might be thinking that it was Jim Bowen presenting it. I will be as...

Wales: Fiscal Settlement (19 May 2021)

Deidre Brock: What recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on the adequacy of the fiscal settlement.

Wales: Fiscal Settlement (19 May 2021)

Deidre Brock: The fiscal settlement will not matter all that much if the possible trade deal with Australia goes through with a zero-tariff regime, which would cause serious difficulties for Welsh and, indeed, Scottish farmers. What compensation for those farmers is being built into the fiscal settlement, should this latest gung-ho trade deal scupper their livelihoods?

Debate on the Address: A Brighter Future for the Next Generation (13 May 2021)

Deidre Brock: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate. Often, parents or guardians of new children re-evaluate their priorities and dedicate themselves more fully to creating a better future for those children—a better world for their children to grow up in. It is clear, though, that this is not always the case. What parent would stop their children living and working in other European...

Violence in Israel and Palestine (12 May 2021)

Deidre Brock: The covid-19 pandemic has hit Palestinian communities disproportionately hard, but despite Israel’s having the world’s highest covid-19 vaccination rate, it remains the case that fewer than 150,000 Palestinians have been vaccinated in the occupied west bank and Gaza. What are FCDO Ministers and their representatives there doing to rectify that injustice?

Exiting the European Union (Animals) (27 Apr 2021)

Deidre Brock: Here we are again, coming up to five years since that referendum in which England decided to take us out of the EU, and still those behind that hare-brained scheme cannot settle on what needs to be done. There has been a veritable catalogue of failures along the way, passing by the truly awful performances in negotiations, the collapse of exporting industries in the early part of this...

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food and Drink Exports to the EU (22 Apr 2021)

Deidre Brock: Scottish exports make up a quarter of the UK’s food and drink exports. Those exports have been hammered by Brexit, losing out on hundreds of millions of pounds in sales in January and February alone, with some products seeing their market all but collapse, and virtually nothing is being done about it. A new Brexit cliff has arrived before we finished plummeting off the last one: composite...

Cop26: Green Investment and Public Transport (14 Apr 2021)

Deidre Brock: There is no joined-up thinking on any issue with this Government, but we would all have hoped for some cross-Department thinking on this issue at least. We are, as usual, disappointed, with even the green homes grant gone after just a few months—so much for building back better. There is increasing concern voiced internationally, too, about the UK Government’s lack of progress...

Leaving the EU: Impact on the UK (17 Mar 2021)

Deidre Brock: I am old enough to remember the days when we were told that, post-Brexit, the UK would hold all the cards and the trade deal would be the easiest in human history; that the EU needed the UK more than the UK needed the EU and there was no downside to Brexit, only a considerable upside; and that trade would boom immediately after we left. The Office for National Statistics told us what actually...

Transport: Transport Decarbonisation (11 Mar 2021)

Deidre Brock: What recent steps his Department has taken to help facilitate transport decarbonisation in line with the Government’s commitments (a) to the Paris agreement and (b) for COP26.

Transport: Transport Decarbonisation (11 Mar 2021)

Deidre Brock: When does the Minister consider that there will be enough public charging points available for electric-powered vehicles to ensure that no domestic user requires an internal combustion engine? I would settle for her best estimate of when urban motorists could be fossil-free. How quickly does she think the network can be built?

Cop26 (10 Mar 2021)

Deidre Brock: I thank the hon. Member for Bristol North West (Darren Jones) and his colleagues for enabling this important debate to be held today. I also thank Members from across the House for their contributions. They have made some excellent points about the Government’s plans for COP26, with many focusing on the lack of clarity around the efforts made so far on the road to COP26 and to our critical...

Covid-19: Government’s Publication of Contracts ( 9 Mar 2021)

Deidre Brock: Will the Minister tell us: how much was paid out under the contracts in advance of delivery; how much has actually been clawed back for services or products not delivered; and how much are the Government still to pursue in repayments?

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Income tax (charge) ( 8 Mar 2021)

Deidre Brock: Missing from this Budget is any real effort towards addressing climate change and the environmental problems the world faces. This Government like to talk about climate change but they do not act on that chat. So we get a token commitment to a green economic recovery while they continue to crank up the pressure to carry on regardless. When France was creating the Paris agreement, it invested...

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Scottish Fishing Businesses ( 4 Mar 2021)

Deidre Brock: The Prime Minister said a week ago that he thought the fishing industry could be saved if we only ate more British fish. Two months ago, the Leader of the House said that the fish are “happier” because of Brexit. In January, the DEFRA Secretary said the collapse of exports was a “teething problem”. Can the flippancy end now, and can we get some serious answers for the industry? Some...

Cop26: COP26: UK’s Objectives (24 Feb 2021)

Deidre Brock: In those discussions with interested parties, did they ask why the UK’s objectives are so vague and so unambitious? Did they point out that the UK Government have missed a slew of targets on the climate change emergency and that there appears to be little to no effort being made to catch up? How can the UK Government pretend to any world leadership on this issue when they show such a marked...

UK Shellfish Exports ( 8 Feb 2021)

Deidre Brock: The past five weeks have been an absolute nightmare for food-exporting businesses. Fishing businesses face bankruptcy, dairies cannot shift their cheeses, and meat was sitting rotting in lorries, stuck in customs. Small businesses ended mail order deliveries to Northern Ireland and European truckers are refusing UK loads bound for Europe for fear that they will end up stuck in a lorry park in...

Environment Bill: New Clause 1 - Environmental Principles: Public Authorities (26 Jan 2021)

Deidre Brock: Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I shall speak to Scottish National party amendments 43 and 44. This Bill concerns England in the main; most of these policy areas are devolved and Scotland has its own environmental legislation, which, frankly, is light years ahead. This Bill has made its way rather painfully through the process, and it has seemed for far too much of that time that it...

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food Imports and Exports (21 Jan 2021)

Deidre Brock: Europe’s biggest fish market in Peterhead is empty. An industry has collapsed because this Government’s ideological blinkers meant they made a mess of the negotiations and Ministers think it is a teething problem or a paperwork problem or it is not their fault. Will Ministers tell us how they intend to sort this out? Will the Government go back to the EU to seek a grace period and new...

Police National Computer (18 Jan 2021)

Deidre Brock: Mr Deputy Speaker, you would have thought that the Home Secretary would be fronting up a statement on an issue as important as this, but I guess that requires a commitment to the job that she appears to lack. The National Police Chiefs Council was told that the loss and mis-matching of biometrics and DNA samples matched were hampering the investigation of crimes. Are they also interfering...


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