We will not take that measure.

On 3 September 2019 my Rt Hon Friend the then Secretary of State (Teresa Villiers) commissioned an independent review following the Toddb

I am updating the House on today’s publication of the government’s response to Professor Sir Charles Godfray’s independent review of our

My right hon. Friend makes an important point. The Environment Agency is a statutory consultee on all planning applications.

I beg to move an amendment, leave out from “volunteers” to end and insert: “acknowledges that following the Pitt Review in 2008, local an

I am going to make progress and conclude.

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Secondly, after the 2014 floods, another review was led by Oliver Letwin.

I will on that point, but then I am going to make progress.

My hon. Friend makes an important point.

That is correct, and the national Coal Authority sits within BEIS. We have directed it to carry out an urgent assessment of those mines.