Environment and Climate Change Committee
11 November 2026
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Environment and Climate Change Committee Actual start House of Lords
Follow its sittings16:22 - 18:44
Speaker 1
Good morning and welcome to the Lords Committee on the Environment and Climate Change. Today, we will be hearing from the CEO of the Environment Agency, Philip Duffy, on two subjects: firstly, on waste crime, which will be the third follow-up session of the committee's waste crime inquiry, and the second part of the meeting will focus on drought, essentially to understand the situation since the committee's report on drought was published in May this year. Before we start, may I remind everyone that the session will be webcast live on Parliament TV and that a transcript will be taken and made public. Members are reminded that they should declare any relevant interests the first time they speak.
And I'll take the opportunity here to say that I am a director of Peers for the Planet, and when we come to the drought report, that I own a borehole on our home in South Oxfordshire. Today's a little unusual, colleagues, so before we start, may I let everyone know that at 11:00 a.m. we will stand to observe the 2 minutes silence in remembrance of the Armistice. The committee's clerk, Alistair, will give me the signal when it is almost time. So that's just a heads up. So, we should start business.
And the, first of all, Philip Duffy, thank you very much for the letter that we received, late, I think it was yesterday.
We have been waiting for it for some time, but it's good that it arrived in time for this meeting. The first question that I'd like to put to you is to ask you to update the committee on Operation Unite and, in particular, what were the challenges faced and the lessons learned from this campaign. Please introduce the campaign to us.
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