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.

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

I am going to address all those points of review later, but I wanted to take the opportunity, since this does not always happen, to effec

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.

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.