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13 July 2026

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Peers put oral questions on agriculture, AI, climate and water regulation before turning to procedural business on the Railways Bill venue, statutory instruments and completion of the Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill stages in the Lords.

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Oral questions and subsequent House business

36:40

Oral questions and subsequent House business

36:40

Oral questions — farming, AI labour market, climate finance and water quality

36:40

Sustainable Farming Incentive and regenerative agriculture

36:40

SFI opening question — regenerative agriculture alignment

36:40

Common land, uplands and species‑rich grassland support

38:20

Regenerative farming under ELMS — criteria and private finance

40:37

Farm size, subsidies and food production priorities

42:52

Access for large and small farms — simplification and multiple SFIs

44:18

AI labour market strategy and skills policy

47:06

AI labour market strategy — skills boost and regional upskilling

47:06

Algorithmic recruitment, bias and Youth Guarantee

49:22

AI employment — regional investment and creative sectors

50:51

AI skills hub — course quality and human capabilities

52:41

Value for money, youth confidence and AI labour market signals

55:27

Climate risks, housing finance and insurance

58:19

Climate change and housing finance — opening question

58:19

Net zero economy, political consensus and financial regulation

01:00:37

Climate urgency, government investment and insurance pricing

01:03:42

Climate risk and housing insurance affordability

01:05:53

Chalk streams, Clean Water Bill and regulation

01:09:04

Clean Water Bill and statutory protection for chalk streams

01:09:04

Water industry regulation, new single regulator and enforcement

01:11:41

Clean Water Bill timing, NPPF, Thames Water and stakeholder engagement

01:16:24

House business — Railways Bill venue, statutory instruments and Steel Industry Bill passage

01:19:38

Procedural business: Railways Bill venue and statutory instruments

01:19:38

Conclusion of oral questions and move to Railways Bill

01:19:38

Railways Bill — Grand Committee vs Floor of the House

01:20:42

Approval of previously debated statutory instruments en bloc

01:26:54

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill — third reading and passage

01:29:19

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill — third reading and legislative consent

01:29:19

Steel Bill — passage, strategic rationale and ministerial thanks

01:33:39

Steel Bill — safeguards on transfer powers and competitiveness

01:35:52

Steel Bill — improved accountability and thanks before passage

01:42:09

Civil Service pensions outsourcing and ministerial oversight

01:45:19

Civil Service pensions contract failures and oversight

01:45:19

Civil Service Pensions — contract failures and oversight

01:45:19

Civil Service Pensions failures — peers’ challenges on Capita and Cabinet Office oversight

01:45:19

Civil Service Pensions failure — contract oversight and member redress

01:45:19

Civil Service Pensions — call for Capita debarment review

01:51:34

Civil Service Pensions — Capita failures and government surge response

01:55:43

Minister: current backlog, loans and surge intervention

01:55:43

Minister: outsourcing rationale, sanctions and McCloud timetable

01:59:12

Lord Davies: interest rates and compensation for distress

02:04:06

Baroness Wheatcroft: Capita’s wider government contracts

02:07:32

Civil Service and EP pensions — transparency and member confidence

02:08:38

Civil Service Pensions — speed of payments, sanctions on Capita and lessons learned

02:13:48

Civil Aviation Bill — CAA remit and passenger rights

02:18:39

Civil Aviation Bill — growth duty debate

02:18:39

Report stage: CAA growth duty debate

02:18:39

Report stage opening and Moylan’s growth amendments

02:18:39

Report stage opened and Moylan’s challenge to CAA powers

02:18:39

Lord Moylan’s Amendments 1–3 — purpose clause and growth focus

02:22:23

Support for Moylan — aviation growth and airport business rates

02:26:08

Parliamentary scrutiny vs CAA and Secretary of State powers

02:31:50

Lord Redwood: growth focus and airport capacity

02:37:32

Growth duty vs disabled passengers and consumer protection

02:43:04

Baroness Brinton: growth duty vs disabled passengers’ rights

02:43:04

Liberal Democrat front bench: safety and consumer protection first

02:44:31

Conservative rebuttal: disabled access as growth opportunity

02:48:53

Growth duty and regulatory approach — Minister and Lord Moylan

02:49:55

Government position on growth duty and withdrawal of Amendment 1

02:49:55

Minister Hendy: existing growth duties and new passenger protections

02:49:55

Moylan withdraws Amendment 1, trails division on growth

02:54:19

Lord Moylan — wheelchair compensation and regulatory approach

03:19:53

Moylan on Amendment 71 — wheelchair compensation and ICAO treaty

03:19:53

Moylan’s Amendments 4, 21 and 26 — regulatory cost target and scope of consultation

03:21:42

Passenger rights amendments — scope and safeguards

02:55:37

Opposition and crossbench amendments on passenger rights

02:55:37

Opposition amendments — non‑regression and passenger rights

02:55:37

Opposition Amendment 2 — non‑regression of passenger protections

02:55:37

Opposition amendments on carers, family seating and delay information

02:58:38

Further opposition and cross‑bench amendments on accessibility and consultation

03:01:02

Text of Amendment 2 read and grouping correction on Amendment 25

03:04:08

Peer amendments on allergies, carers and consultation design

03:08:21

Amendment 6 — allergies, Equality Act and Natasha’s Law

03:08:21

Baroness Brinton’s Amendment 22 — keeping carers with disabled and elderly passengers

03:09:58

Brinton’s Amendments 20, 23 and 25 — consultation deadlines and ‘desirability’ wording

03:14:02

Grey-Thompson: support for allergy and carers amendments

03:17:33

Aviation accessibility duties and growth mandate

03:19:53

Regulatory scope, accessibility consultation and growth duty vote

03:19:53

Moylan and others: regulatory scope, enforcement and deregulation target

03:19:53

Moylan’s Amendments 4, 21 and 26 — regulatory cost target and scope of consultation

03:19:53

Former MEP: EU passenger rights, enforcement and Montreal Convention

03:28:15

Redwood and colleagues: defence of 25% deregulation target in aviation

03:33:36

Civil Aviation Bill — accessibility consultation and growth duty vote

03:40:23

Minister Hendy: accessibility consultation and response to amendments

03:40:23

Division on Amendment 3 — growth duty rejected

03:50:49

Disabled air passengers — amendments and enforcement

04:04:54

Amendments 5 and 9 — disabled air passengers, training and international framework

04:04:54

Amendments 5 and 9 — Grey-Thompson on training, equipment and complaints

04:04:54

Brinton and others — minimum training standards and Montreal Convention reform

04:07:52

Lord Blencathra — practical failures in assistance and handling of wheelchairs

04:12:43

Experiential planning, customer service and UK role at ICAO

04:22:05

Disabled air travel minimum standards and enforcement gap

04:28:50

Good practice, abuse of wheelchair services and need for minimum standards

04:28:50

Enforcement gap and Equality Act interaction

04:32:10

Accessibility duties and disabled passengers’ rights

04:35:17

Moylan: support for strengthened disabled access duties

04:35:17

Minister Hendy: duties, consultation, compensation and international leadership

04:36:32

Blencathra: thanks and focus on check‑in delays

04:44:54

Grey-Thompson closes accessibility grouping and withdraws amendment

04:46:07

CAA enforcement powers and airport charges

04:49:03

CAA enforcement, consumer protection and airport charges

04:49:03

CAA consumer powers and NATS liability

04:49:03

Peers’ amendments — CAA powers and NATS liability

04:49:03

Moylan’s technical amendments — regulators, EU alignment and appeals

04:49:03

Grayling’s Amendments 13–14 — proportional CAA enforcement

04:55:42

Lord Young’s Amendment 65 — NATS liability for 2023 ATC failure

04:58:46

Further support for NATS liability and taxpayer argument

05:06:47

Opposition front bench — CAA/CMA powers, scrutiny and Amendment 65

05:09:29

Minister — CAA enforcement powers and NATS liability

05:14:23

Minister Hendy — CAA enforcement tools, CMA concurrency and scrutiny

05:14:23

Minister rejects NATS liability amendment; CAA reporting duty agreed

05:18:43

Airport terminal drop-off charges — amendment and vote

05:26:09

Airport drop-off charges — amendments, debate and vote

05:26:09

Amendment 33 — call to review airport drop‑off charges

05:26:09

Airport drop-off fees — rural, Belfast and consumer impacts

05:31:13

Minister Hendy: defence of airport drop-off charging discretion

05:38:37

Division on Amendment 33 — airport drop-off review passed

05:42:12

Aviation safety regulation and CAA powers

05:53:10

Aviation safety, CAA powers and GA concerns

05:53:10

Cabin air safety and CAA rule‑making powers

05:53:10

Cabin air quality — amendments and risk assessment

05:53:10

Amendment 34 — Empey on responsibility for cabin air standards

05:53:10

Amendment 37 — mandatory CO and VOC monitoring on aircraft

05:58:18

Industry experience — call for proportional approach on cabin air risks

06:03:02

Clause 8 — CAA rule‑making powers and parliamentary control

06:06:02

Brinton: CAA rule-making powers and safety conditions

06:06:02

Moylan: rationale for delegating aviation rules to CAA

06:08:55

Moylan’s Amendment 57 — CAA veto over ministerial guidance

06:12:59

Minister Hendy — cabin air, CAA rule‑making and oversight

06:16:58

Minister Hendy: cabin air, safety rule-making and DPPRC response

06:16:58

Minister Hendy on CAA rulebook, consequential powers and flight-time review

06:20:56

Airspace modernisation, GA charges and pilot workforce

06:26:41

Airspace modernisation — consultation, environmental safeguards and charging

06:26:41

Amendments 38–39 — consultation duties on airspace modernisation and pilot input

06:26:41

Airspace modernisation — community consultation and charging powers

06:37:02

General aviation charges and pilot workforce

06:52:20

Amendment 41 — Kirkhope on general aviation charges

06:52:20

Amendment 69 — BALPA call for pilot demographics reporting

06:57:16

Goschen: regulatory environment, airspace and airfields for GA

06:58:42

Further support for GA and context on emissions

07:02:46

Opposition backs Amendment 69 and GA cost protections

07:06:32

General aviation charges and pilot workforce data

07:08:06

Civil Aviation Bill — airport slots and NATS liability

07:13:24

Civil Aviation Bill — airport slots and NATS liability

07:13:24

Civil Aviation Bill — airport slots and final liability votes

07:13:24

Airport slots regime — amendments and regional connectivity

07:13:24

Slots regime — Grayling’s light-touch approach and criminal sanctions

07:13:24

Slots regime — Empey on regional connectivity safeguards

07:19:19

Opposition stance on slots — regional access and scrutiny

07:23:29

Minister Hendy: response to slots amendments and delegated powers

07:26:18

Clarification question — Empey on powers to stop slot reallocation

07:32:01

Grayling closes slots group — constrained but not absent state role

07:33:56

Civil Aviation Bill — final amendments and votes

07:36:38

Airport expansion safeguards — Amendments 51 and 63 withdrawn

07:36:38

Amendment 65 — renewed case for NATS liability and division result

07:45:43

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House of Lords

13 July 2026

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 Actual start 14:00 House of Lords

36:40 - 36:43

Speaker 1

First oral question, Baroness Willis of Summertown.

36:43 - 36:49

Speaker 2

I beg leave to ask the question standing on my name in the order paper.

36:49 - 37:09

Speaker 3

My Lords, the sustainable farming incentive is largely aligned with regenerative agriculture. There are actions for cover crops, no-till farming, and providing insect-rich habitats. Furthermore, SFI includes actions for precision application of crop nutrients and pesticides.

37:09 - 37:19

Speaker 2

So I thank the noble lady the minister for her response. It's good to hear that the government will move towards increased SFI funding with a focus on regenerative agricultural practice.

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