United Kingdom parliament
Ewen Cameron
Member of the House of Lords · Crossbench
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House of Lords · House of Lords · 21 July 2026
Land Use Framework: food production vs nature and energy
“Bearing in mind the current crisis over our defence budget and the fact that feeding our population will be as important to our nation's survival as the efforts of our defence forces, I wonder if the noble lady the minister…”
Watch from 25:04
House of Lords · House of Lords · 20 July 2026
Social Housing Bill: regulator powers and rural Right to Buy exemptions
“Strict interpretation of the way it was implemented resulted in over 60% of rural parishes being excluded from the exemption to the right to buy. 60%, my Lords, of all rural parishes thus remained exposed to the almost certainty of…”
Watch from 2:21:48Cameron: rural disposals and 12‑week delay
“My Lords, as heralded, I rise to support amendment 14 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Best, and as he said, I'm particularly interested in the 12-week delay being proposed here for rural properties. And I won't explain…”
Watch from 3:16:54
Built Environment Committee · House of Lords · 14 July 2026
Foreign examples and limits of devolution: capabilities and central coordination
“Thank you very much. I mean, to some extent you've been making references to other projects, both at home and abroad throughout this morning. But I was wondering whether you could pick a particular or two or three examples, probably…”
Watch from 1:12:45Role of NISTA and data in sustaining ambition and legitimacy
“I mean, from what you're saying, I get the impression that the government's kind of lost its ambition on all this. And if we had a firm central, I mean, your example of Holland and Germany making these projects legally…”
Watch from 1:19:06
Built Environment Committee · House of Lords · 7 July 2026
Limiting factor question: utilities capacity and early engagement
“Thank you very much, good morning, thank you very much for coming. And I suppose my question is a sort of first umbrella type question, is to what extent does the provision and connection of utilities represent a limiting factor…”
Watch from 2:59Water supply and wastewater constraints, and planning failures
“Stuart, what's in the terms of the water industry, both in terms of water supply and receipt of waste water? The water industry is not famous for its current success rate in either probably.”
Watch from 5:37Electricity networks: early engagement, demand profiles and planning rights
“But I seem to be getting from all three of you the idea that it's all very easy as long as the long-term planning gets a kick up the backside.”
Watch from 10:57
Built Environment Committee · House of Lords · 30 June 2026
Structural causes of the skills crisis and demand vs. need
“Thank you. Thank you very much. Lord Cameron. Thank you very much. Yes, and we've heard both from written evidence and from oral evidence that we've got a crisis in skills. I mean, everyone seems to be describing it as…”
Watch from 16:43Structural causes of the skills crisis and demand vs. need
“How do you how do you get the demand to react to the need? You've admitted there's a need, we all know there's a need, and how do you get is it is it a government-led demand, is it private…”
Watch from 22:48Structural causes of the skills crisis and demand vs. need
“Yeah, thank you very much. And Sam, what do you think the role of your sector is going to be? I mean, we heard last week, for instance, that although as you said, you've got people queuing up to join…”
Watch from 24:47
Built Environment Committee · House of Lords · 23 June 2026
Offsite construction, modular housing and MMC categories
“Thank you very much. My interest first, I'm a retired member of a farming family in Somerset and we let a few houses and also commercial lets as well. Well, my question thanks to the enthusiasm of this committee has…”
Watch from 55:55Self‑build kits, meanwhile uses and transition to skills agenda
“Thank you very much. I mean, can I move on just to sort of, I mean, these new materials require new skills. I just wanted to talk in general about the skills agenda. David described it as a skills crisis.…”
Watch from 1:01:07Skills crisis, timber roadmap and targeted training programmes
“It's not really a problem. But we can't import skills, largely because we've left the EU and people seem to object to importing skills. I put that in inverted commas. But I was just sort of wondering what if you…”
Watch from 1:01:30
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