United Kingdom parliament
Barry Gardiner
Member of Parliament · Labour
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Westminster Hall · House of Commons · 14 September 2026
Barry Gardiner: use Water Industry Act powers instead of a referendum
“Thank you, Madam Chair. I hope I don't shock my honorable friend for Colne Valley, who made an excellent speech in opening this debate, when I say I don't want a referendum to bring the water industry back into public…”
Watch from 50:32Lib Dem frontbench: mutual public-benefit model and stronger regulator
“I thank her for giving way and I fully agree with all that she's saying. Does she also find it strange that we talk about taking tough action against these companies? We talk about the, I think it was 80…”
Watch from 2:14:39Minister’s reply: public health focus, public control agenda, and reform signals
“First of all, can I reassure her that she is not an irritating minister at all. I think she's generally held to be a very good minister. But could I tempt her to just enlarge slightly on what she said?…”
Watch from 2:37:48
Environmental Audit Committee · House of Commons · 14 September 2026
EU alignment, tighter limit values and mortality burden
“Thank you, Chair, and my apologies for arriving late at this session. I was chairing another meeting. Can I just press you on why the government has not followed the EU in updating the limit values to reflect the WHO…”
Watch from 52:41Support and future regulation for ammonia-reducing farm practices
“Thank you. Minister Hardy, in August you announced the new opt-in scheme for people to sign up to get alerts on their phone if levels of five pollutants were reaching high or very high levels. Can you recall how many…”
Watch from 1:25:18Opt-in air quality alerts scheme and communication strategy
“But what I want to ask you really here is why don't you just do it like the same way we do for, you know, for heatwaves or flood alerts? Put it out on the weather channels, put it out…”
Watch from 1:25:55
Environmental Audit Committee · House of Commons · 9 September 2026
Opening: session purpose and CCC mandate
“Good afternoon and welcome to this meeting of the Environmental Audit Select Committee. I'm standing in as chair for Toby Perkins who's unavailable this afternoon. It's a one-off session to question the Committee on Climate Change on their June 2026…”
Watch from 0:02Heathrow ANPS: question on six‑month CCC response delay
“And you then said that you wouldn't publish that until between the 9th and the 16th of September. But you would meet him in July to discuss the draft. What advice did you give government on the proposed draft ANPS,…”
Watch from 2:01Heathrow consultation timing: accountability and late publication
“Yes, my point, which you're not really addressing, I have to say, is that you were originally asked by government even to make your views known as part of the public consultation. I understand that you're saying, well, it was…”
Watch from 5:24
Transport Committee · House of Commons · 8 September 2026
Non‑CO2 aviation effects and government treatment
“Thank you Chair. Ms Warrington, am I right in thinking the CCC's balanced pathway though because you quoted the figures for SAF and I wasn't clear about that. I thought the CCC's balanced pathway said that 38% of liquid fuels…”
Watch from 20:52Carbon pricing, ETS coverage and demand effects
“Just to ask you, is that not then regressive? Because instead of the demand being a constraint on the flights going out at a lower price, what you're doing is you're bumping up the price in order to get the…”
Watch from 41:03SAF technology generations and electricity competition
“I'm looking at the sort of main obligation on SAF, which has risen from 2%, 10%, going up to 22% in 2040. But I wonder if you could talk about HEFAs, hydrogenated esters fatty acids, because that's the most successful…”
Watch from 51:32
Westminster Hall · House of Commons · 3 September 2026
Short contributions: local biodiversity, securitisation and urgency
“Imagine the top brains in the country's security and intelligence community produced a report that told you how to save the world. You'd want to see it, right? Well, this report we're discussing today is not about how to save…”
Watch from 2:21:33
Environmental Audit Committee · House of Commons · 2 September 2026
Biodiversity net gain register transparency and developer confidence
“Thank you, Chair. There's been one of the ways in which you assist economic growth and development, of course, is now through the biodiversity net gain and the register of BNG because the site register, which you run on behalf…”
Watch from 41:02Environmental Delivery Plans: capacity, funding and KPIs versus outcomes
“On the environmental delivery plans, the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery at the University of Oxford has said, we have significant concerns whether Natural England are sufficiently resourced to formulate properly evidence-based EDPs, environmental delivery plans, alongside their existing remit.…”
Watch from 45:26Global biodiversity targets, degraded ecosystems and partnerships
“Now let's come to nature being better, because I have your NE annual report traffic light system. Hope you can see it from there. Beautifully green, a couple of bits of amber down there. And basically what that tells me…”
Watch from 48:22
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